Flinging himself on one desk or another, Mr. West wins us over from the start with his mischievous grin, and anyone with any experience of higher education will smile at the swift dispatch with which this Butley sends his literature students packing: Wordsworth can wait.
The phrase "surgical strike" does not begin to describe the dispatch with which they moved toward the table that the co-proprietor had picked for them — nor the speed with which they put their napkins on their laps.
The bottom line is that there is no way that, knowing these facts, anyone can credibly write off these events as another despicable case of anti-Semitism: the same kind of deeply embedded racial hatred that has come down through the ages; the virulence that fueled the Holocaust and the dispatch with which French police rounded up Jews for the Nazis during World War II.
There's comfort to be taken in the everyday, mundane efficiency with which the staff dispatch what, for those over the counter, are generally pivotal, once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
So, however small the baby step, the Lin-to-Anthony dunk represented progress, as did the ease with which the Knicks dispatched the undermanned Hawks in the wake of two losses to sub-.500 teams in their previous three games.
The alacrity with which the Sky Sports bosses dispatched Andy Gray to the knackers' yard suggests that they saw no merit in flogging more life out of a dead workhorse.
And maybe, in hindsight, that was what came off as most striking about Saturday night at Arrowhead Stadium: The cool, businesslike dispatch with which Pinkel's Tigers had rallied to beat favored Brigham Young University, 20-16.
Garcetti has said he wants to merge the LAFD call center with the Police Department's dispatch operation, which the mayor says would improve response times.
It's worth watching for a few minutes, if only to observe the pathetic lameness of the pro-obstructionism musings offered by a guy from the Heritage Foundation and the courteous forbearance with which Ezra dispatches the less ridiculous of them.
The haste with which Mr. Gorbachev dispatched the German question left diplomats surmising that he intended an equally swift assault on the economy now that Mr. Ligachev and his resistance to a market economy were subdued.
