Word: shrewd
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...time President of Ecuador, Plaza himself served as his country's President from 1948 to 1952, becoming Ecuador's first chief of state in modern history to keep the army out of the palace. He also won a wide reputation as a shrewd internationalist while serving as a U.N. troubleshooter in Lebanon, the Congo and Cyprus and heading the hard-working United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. What Latin America needs most, Plaza once said, is a "strong, dynamic, creative" OAS. Now he has the chance to see if he can create just that...
...group private and allow the HPC to avoid the abrupt and confused policy switches which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect and push HPC policy skillfully in individual meetings with Faculty members and Deans...
...Ozawa, the move seems a shrewd one. The pressures of conducting the top orchestras could cramp or even crush a youthful career. San Francisco offers him a unit that can grow with him as he broadens and deepens his repertory, and it will require him to conduct only 17 of the season's 35 weeks. As he said last week, this will leave time for "opera, other orchestras, studying, and many other nice things. I think at my age it is important to have many experiences...
...real breadwinner, of course, is his alter ego, Nicholas Blake, creator of Nigel Strangeways and other shrewd detective heroes, who was himself created in 1935 to finance a repaired roof over the Day-Lewis home at Cheltenham. Day-Lewis has kept increasingly comfortable ones overhead ever since, including the 18th century home in Greenwich, where he now lives with his second wife and their two children...
This is the kind of question Greene wants the audience to consider. If what he has produced here is "propaganda," then it is shrewd and subtle propaganda, for he does not club the audience over the head with 85 minutes of American "war crimes against the heroic struggling Vietnamese people." Though there are the inevitable bedside clips of women and children maimed by the bombing, the film is not calculated to elicit the audience's sympathy for the North Vietnamese under siege and attack so much as it means to show that American efforts to subdue this nation are futile...