Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration bedeviled by scandal, Henry Kissinger stood out as a bright and admired example of integrity. His supporters were already calling him the most successful Secretary of State in this century. Coupled with his foreign policy accomplishments, his urbane wit and lucid intelligence had made him, according to a recent poll, the most popular man in the U.S. Government. Yet there was a small cloud: persistent rumors dating even before his selection as Secretary of State that he might be involved in the rather unpleasant business of wiretapping some of his colleagues...
They love Caldwell because she does indeed know how to put on opera. As a producer and director, she has long since proved her wit, good taste and knack for motivating stage people. She has also emerged in the past few seasons as an uncommonly gifted conductor who waddles to the podium through the audience (there is no other approach in Boston's Orpheum Theater, an old vaudeville and movie house), slumps down into a canvas director's chair, then cajoles the dickens out of her pickup orchestra. All these talents were in evidence last week as Caldwell...
...began as a somber occasion-the memorial service for Columnist Stewart Alsop, a civilized man who succumbed to leukemia after waging an inspiring fight with his will, his wit and his body (see THE PRESS...
...each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley on old tracks...
While dean of the Faculty from 1970 to 1973, Dunlop personally supervised over 40 departmental budgets and drew up the preliminary goals for Harvard's affirmative action plan. He was known for his gruff tone and earthy wit...