Word: tactician
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Monteverdi is a brilliant tactician; he bases just about all the Vespers music on the ancient traditon of Gregorian chant. Surely that will appeal to conservative church authorities. And he shows a dazzling musical variety in doing so; surely that will impress the musical world. And he intersperses the psalms and canticles with the very latest things, little concertos or motets for solo voices, displaying the fabulous virtuosity that the Mantuan singers, under Monteverdi's direction, were capable...
Even though it took him 13 years to bring Michael Collins to the screen, Jordan never had anyone but Neeson in mind for the role of the Irish revolutionary and guerrilla tactician. "Liam has got this terribly honest heart beneath everything," Jordan notes. "One of my worries was that the audience would perhaps lose sympathy for Collins because what he does is so ferocious, but halfway through I realized Liam could chop up his grandmother and he'd still be a sympathetic...
...CAMPAIGN TRAIL BOB DOLE depicts himself as the only man who can save the Grand Old Party from the divisive populism of Pat Buchanan. But Republican elders and lawmakers fear that Dole, the Senate leader and master tactician, is leaving them vulnerable back in Washington, where they stand to lose control of Congress if they don't post some legislative accomplishments--and fast...
...force of House and Senate leaders designed in part to ensure that the Senate majority leader and other moderate Senate Republicans would not unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional bargaining. The Speaker also anointed himself the Hill's master strategist and tactician. When the time came for Republicans to take a harder line toward Bill Clinton, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who set the tone. And when the time came to secure a powerful ally for the G.O.P.'s embattled overhaul of Medicare, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who cut the deal...
Neither his admirers nor his detractors were surprised by Holbrooke's diplomatic coup. In terms both camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner...