Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Kennedy did it again. During questioning by friendly Republican Congressmen on the Joint Economic Committee, he was asked whether the current 4% unemployment rate was "acceptable or unacceptable." Ignoring a prepared statement that a staffer hastily handed to him, Kennedy replied with more candor than tact: "Under present circumstances, it is acceptable." To compound matters, Kennedy also raised anew the idea that if present anti-inflationary policies do not work, the Administration would have to consider "moving into the field of controls of some kind...
...four summers now, in the center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use anything--from a Times Square News Flasher heralding the scenes to a case of Carling Black Label in the New Tankard Cans at the Last Supper--but use it only with the tact of art, the high decorum which subsists in the meetness of technique and purpose...
...summer of 1955, the President, fishing and golfing in Colorado, suffered the first of his heart attacks but recovered quickly. Less than a year later, in June 1956, he was stricken again, this time with ileitis, which required major surgery. To his credit, Nixon, then Vice President, responded with tact and humility in a situation that might have stopped other men. After two such illnesses, it seemed impossible that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises...
Amid rigged climaxes and sobbing violins, Smith acts Miss Brodie with tact and subtlety. But even profound craftsmanship cannot create sympathy. From the opening it is clear Miss Brodie is a petty self-deceiver and the fabric of her life is threadbare and shabby. The rest of the film is only variations on a seam. "A guid beginnin' makes a guid endin'," her class is informed. Aye; if only the revairrse did not hoold as well...
Noon and Night play it safer and softer. Terrence McNally redoes French farce à la Grove Press in a play where all the vice is versa. A heterosexual is mistaken for a homosexual, a pair of mild Babbitts turn out to be, in tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging...