Word: tactfulness
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Reciprocal Cooperation. Miller has always been at his best on such field trips, speaking fluent, straight-from-the-shoulder Spanish and handling himself with tact and wit. This time, with the 21 hemispheric foreign ministers due to gather in Washington next month, latino leaders could expect more straight talk from the U.S. Government's top Latin American policymaker...
Umphrey Lee is a big, good-natured man who manages to resemble neither preacher, scholar, historian nor college president. The fact that he is all of these things-and a man of tact and horse sense, too-goes a long way to explain the rise of Southern Methodist University. Last week, already the biggest private university in the Southwest and still sprouting, S.M.U. proudly dedicated its newest shining wonder: a $3,500,000 school of theology, consisting of seven pink brick, Georgian-style buildings spread on 16 acres of the S.M.U. campus...
Then came Edinburgh, originally thought up by Bing to create a market for the Glyndebourne company, which was to be the main attraction. One of the most remarkable examples of Bing's tact, competence and persuasiveness is that he managed to persuade the Scots to have an Edinburgh Festival at all. He did it, not by promising it would make money, but, says his onetime assistant and successor at Edinburgh, Scotsman Ian Hunter, by infusing "a terrific sense of idealism about the venture." At any rate, as the 150,000 music lovers who visited Edinburgh last year proved...
...STORM OVER WAKE" [TIME, Oct. 30] CONTAINED NUMEROUS ERRORS OF TACT...
...stories Turgenev maintains one quality which few writers have ever teen able to match. He never imposes himself on his characters, never plays ricks on them or the reader. It is this tone of creative tact which so impressed two American storytellers, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, when they first looked for literary models. Anderson once called A Sportsman's Notebook "the sweetest thing in all literature."* If he exaggerated...