contriver

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Yet it is still hard for the reader to get truly inside the mind of this complex Kennedy, somehow both a “Machiavellian contriver and man of conscience”.

From Economist • Jul. 7, 2016

Mr. Requa is a good negotiator, an able "contriver" who will pull, if anybody can, the Colorado Springs conference through to success for his great & good friend in the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A slight love story binds the unrelated incidents together and Mr. Oppenheim proves as ingenious a contriver of puzzles as ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will not find any one praised on the ground of having been a cunning contriver, or procurer, of pleasure.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke