Word: understatedness
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Fairbank momentous academic success gelled quickly into distinguished scholarship in a field few academics were paying attention to--China. Despite the monumental task of pioneering such a career. Fairbank maintained his wry and understated demeanor. He writes. "How do you get started in a field that doesn't exist. The...
Nationalism and the domestic political concerns of the two governments are the main hurdles which could prevent a diplomatic settlement, the experts said. "The British, who are normally understated, are passionately nationalistic, especially in this time of their declining influence abroad," said Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government.
For a grand master of surreptitious sophistication who is portrayed in the Italian press as brooding, moody, uncommunicative and withdrawn-a Heathcliff with Magic Markers-Armani sets a fast pace and a high level of good humor and good will with his 26 employees. A trim, quick figure of medium...
Nevertheless, the Gray Old Lady of Filbert Street will be missed. Founded in 1847 as Cummings' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, it made history with its inaugural edition by publishing the first telegraph report in a U.S. newspaper, a dispatch from the Mexican War. The Bulletin was not so fast on...
Mike Watson deals with the subject in what both friends and casual fans have come to recognize as his understated style. "Quiet off the ice, effective with puck on the ice," reads the Harvard hockey media guide. Reserved, he is, Reflective, yes. Circumspect, of course. But perhaps most of all...