Word: tactfulness
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Much of Whittier's popularity, on the other hand, is due to his extreme tact. Boston newspapers have painted him as an attractive young liberal, while they have grown increasingly hostile toward Furcolo. A much more reserved campaigner than Whittier, Furcolo often appears more self-conscious than confident. But a reconciliation with popular Sen. John F. Kennedy '39 and the extensive efforts of his party's bush beaters managed to give the Longmeadow lawyer an almost 3-to-1 victory in last month's Democratic primary...
...economic promises given Kenya's nonwhites that most distressed Grogan. Three months ago, still a potent member of the legislative council, Grogan made a final bid to halt Britain's plans for giving the Kenya blacks a greater say in their own government. With calculated absence of tact, he let it be known that the plans were well rooted in a secret government promise to keep the main seat of power firmly entrenched in the hands of an all-white council...
...inscriptions in his growing collection of memento books show that he has clicked very well with most of his subjects, who praise his skill and tact. But the last two intellectuals whom he photographed gave him a surprise. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright...
Helffrich went to work for NBC 23 years ago as a page boy. At the time, studio executives thought that the page boys, who were guiding tens of thousands of tourists around the Manhattan studios, lacked diplomacy. Helffrich, just out of Penn State, was appointed guide in charge of tact. Except for a wartime tour of duty with the Navy, he has been with NBC ever since, and believes that he is still dealing largely in tact. Some of his decisions depend on sensitivity (the words, offensive to Negroes, of such Stephen Foster songs as Old Black Joe and Massa...
...shade factory, painting decorations. Making his way to Europe for study, he gradually worked deeper into the spirit of impressionism than any other American. Twachtman saw that air itself has color. Nature was to him a prim Salome who kept on all her seven veils. Deftly, delicately, with more tact than passion, he painted her veiled in atmosphere. His Fishing Boats at Gloucester demonstrates Twachtman's genius for evanescent things...