Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED, by African Playwright Wole Soyinka, introduce two aspects of Nigerian life to Manhattan audiences. In the first play, Harold Scott is a devil of a "prophet" as he gathers his "flock" on the beaches. In the second, Scott gives a taut interpretation of a voluntary victim of tribal sacrifices...
...were "living in extreme messiness," and they barely deigned to say "Aye, aye, sir." Though the Vance had won an E for engineering excellence and performed commendably on lonely, months-long patrols in the northern Pacific, she seemed a slack ship to Arnheiter's eye, and only "a taut ship is a happy ship." Arnheiter was up-taut himself: a Naval Academy "ring-knocker" he was passed over once for lieutenant and at 40 was one of the oldest Annapolis men of his rank with command responsibility. Aware that he would be heading for Viet Nam six days later...
From that moment, it was apparent that the Chief was to be a judge whose concern and feeling for the individual tended to outweigh his reliance on specific precedents of the law. During oral arguments before the court, it became his custom to break into a lawyer's taut legalistic reasoning and ask: "Yes, but is it fair?" In Reynolds v. Sims, which in 1964 extended "one man, one vote" to both houses of state legislatures, he wrote for the majority: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic...
Based on a 1963 television drama by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is a taut, disturbing drama that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle...
...makes the mistake of comparing him to his older brother Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. "Oliver fascinated people when he talked," while Matthew "could only convince them." Matthew had the admirable but unexciting virtues of a seagoing Alger hero. Utterly efficient, he ran a taut but not too happy ship, stressing maximum standards of hygiene and minimum shore liberty. When corporal punishment was abolished, he predicted that the Navy would "go to the devil...