Word: knack
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...initiative is developer James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation, a sort of brain-trust godparent to housing efforts all across the country. Rouse's idea was to combine government incentives, benign capitalism and community energy to build decent, affordable housing. One key to the organization's success is Rouse's knack for persuading corporations to get involved and for pointing out the tax incentives that make it worth their while. If a company invests $1 million in a financing pool for low-income housing, over 15 years it could realize $2.3 million in tax savings...
...back and should give Princetonsome semblance of a scoring attack. Watch forsophomore forward Keith Merkler--a seventh-roundToronto pick in 1989--who should rebound from anunspectacular freshman year. Frosh forwards RobLaFerriere--whom Higgins says "works both ends ofthe ice"--and Jacques Gobert--who has "good handsand a good knack around the net" according toHiggins--could also turn out to be ice sharks...
...they expected. The school has hired a team of consultants who are scheduled to drop in on art classes and "assess student profiles," which the students suspect really means taking note of potentially offensive works in progress. School officials may not want to be burned again by their students' knack for controversy. In 1988 an exhibition featuring a portrayal of the late Mayor Harold Washington in women's underwear prompted enraged aldermen to take the painting off the wall in protest. A year later, veterans' groups went ballistic over a student's placing of an American flag on the floor...
...helps, of course, but it is largely Geidt's dry voice and haughty demeanor which keep us interested. He's a John Houseman of the 18th Century, able to deflate the ego of Rameau's nephew without having to look him in the face. The philosopher also has a knack for preempting our own views of Rameau's nephew, "I believe you have brought the art of debasement to new heights," he declares, "I think I liked you better as a musician than as a moralist...
...political ramifications as well as battlefield tactics; the lives of common soldiers along with great generals. There are segments on food and drink at the front lines, the participation of blacks in the Union Army, the role of women and the use of spies. The series has a special knack for resonant details and lucid generalizations. The unprecedented number of casualties, explains Foote, was due to the fact that war's technology had outstripped tactics: bayonet charges were outmoded, but few generals realized it. After its conquest by the Union Army on the Fourth of July in 1863, the city...