Word: cleverest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been lost to art, to journalism and to life itself by the extinction of the great Victorian know-it-alls, the proud and prodigious polymaths of an age whose greatness is now seen to lie in the clever children who wrote its obituary? As these collections again attest, the cleverest child of all was George Bernard Shaw, who could invent a new name for God and tackle anything and anyone, even though he could never learn to eat and drink or make love like other men, occasionally shut up, or even master the bicycle...
...were none before, has paid off handsomely. Chrysler now has 512 dealers either leased or controlled by the company, and they account for some 27% of sales. Another innovation, the offer of a five-year or 50,000-mile warranty to customers, turned out to be one of the cleverest gimmicks in auto history. Insurance premiums to cover costs of repairs are, of course, included in the price that the buyer pays...
...Scotch Presbyterian of dour principles. Bertie was judged too sickly for school (actually he was strong as a horse) and was sketchily educated at home by tutors or a slightly dotty aunt. He had no way of knowing until much later that he was one of the cleverest little boys who ever lived...
...cleverest pop novels suggest subdivisions of the genre. The Piano Sport (Atheneum) by Don Asher, 40, might be called a bop novel. Written by a man who plays funky piano at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, the book tells a sprightly story about a cat who plays piano somewhere else in town. Call the Keeper (Viking) by Nat Hentoff, 41, a man-about-Manhattan who writes voluminously about jazz, race and Greenwich Village, is an ingenious pop thriller about jazz, race and Greenwich Village. The main menace is a Negro intellectual who hangs out with jazzbos and cuts...
This film is Louis Malle's first mistake, though it's a fall he's been riding toward. Malle is one of the New Wave's half dozen cleverest directors, but in three films already he has dealt with themes of self-indulgence to sublimate...