"We became more professional, more clever," he said.
The verbal pressure is higher still, for in 1949 Berlin began dictating to a machine.Biographically the letters take the reader through Berlin's professional ascent from clever young don to Oxford professor, public educator and transatlantic academic star.
Professional men and clever women have always lined up to say just how much they relish Heyer's world of rakes, pistols at dawn and spirited heroines with a penchant for cross-dressing.
In The New York Times, Charles Poore praised Burns's "rancorously vivid portfolio of portraits," while in The New York Sun, William McFee called Burns "recklessly extravagant": "The clever professional novelist would have made half a dozen novels out of it," he claimed.
In April, it shed its tabloid format and cheap newsprint, reappearing as a glossy mag designed to appeal to the sort of clever professional women in their mid-20s to mid-40s who have long yearned for a gossip sheet they are not embarrassed to be seen reading.
But in between those spells of American pressure, the Colombians, made up of mostly amateur and semi-professionals, played some clever passing football that was pleasing on the eye, if not particularly threatening to the US defence.
They may be (slightly) less photogenic than their counterparts on "Quantico," "NCIS," and "Homeland," but they're clever and professional — real-life Good Guys charged with protecting us.
Susan Abro, a senior attorney who served with Masipa on South Africa's electoral court for six years, says the judge is "very clever, very professional", but, above all, warm and modest.
But it feels more like "Ocean's 11," as playful, clever, totally professional thieves (including Seymour Cassel Steve Harriss, who was Eugene on "The Practice"; and Dougray Scott, above) set out to hit three Rodeo Drive jewelry stores during Oscar week.
However, people are often bad about seeing through the outsized claims from another type of clever marketer: professional privacy advocates who routinely say new technologies spell doom to the privacy of those who use them.
