Word: shrewd
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...Hayden, one of the defendants, said early in October, "Old Julius is not stupid. He is shrewd and he knows he's got us either way. If we object to this trial, he can jail us for contempt for three years and appealing the verdict won't help...
Adman Stan Freberg, the shrewd and witty president of Freberg Ltd., believes that ads generally have never been worse. "Tastefulness is probably the last thing an agency thinks about," he says. "The only thing lower on the scale is, 'How will this ad be received in the Sudetenland?'" To Freberg, all that is unbelievable and insulting in advertising is contained in a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo, in which a bride takes time out from her wedding preparations to deal with her father's dandruff. The father's punch line: "I haven't lost...
Fortunately, the general is enacted by George C. Scott, who can sense a character in a gross script the way a sculptor can detect a man in a block of marble. Beneath the pompous strutting, Scott understands, was a shrewd playwright who devised and played a public character for his troops. The trouble was that after Patton persuaded his audience, he took in himself; the author and his persona became inseparable. Scott shows that strange, mad process and demonstrates how courage could become, in time, suicidal. General Patton is too complex a period piece to be seen by the film...
...Scout nickname does a disservice to the man. Gowon was at once tough enough and shrewd enough to win an ugly civil war without splintering what was left of the fragile Nigerian coalition. At a time when hardliners within his government were urging a more ruthless prosecution of the war, Gowon told them: "We have no enemy, the Ibos are not our enemy." Looking to war's end and the problem of reintegrating the Ibos, he ordered his government to collect rent on Ibo-owned property outside the breakaway area and keep the money in trust for its owners...
...Membership immediately ceased to bray: so struck were they by the mighty. Force of this great Eloquence and inspired Rhetoric. Yet B-wen had spoken without Aid of the shrewd Mammon, who'd been obliged to remove his slightly bruised, though otherwise hardy Nose back to sweeter smelling Olympus, so affected was it by the horrendous Stink now wafting up off the Lawn...