Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While still emphasizing content, there are indications that Shahn has become more interested if not merely more adept, in form and color in his recent work. He has become more abstract. James Thrall Soby feels that the artist's reaction of the War as expressed in such pictures as Liberation and Italian Landscape, have led the artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged...
...ever since his early days at Harvard, where "I was never on pro and occasionally on the Dean's List," White has been adept at finance. Concentrating in English Literature, he served on his freshman class committee and was business manager of P.B.H.'s annual Handbook. He enrolled for one term at the Business School in 1925, after finishing his College course requirements at midyears of his senior year and spending several months touring Europe in a Model T. When he entered White, Weld, he had not expected to enjoy investment banking, but by 1936 he found it enough...
...backfield are two sophomores, halfback John Wright and full-back Dave Sikarskie. Wright started all four games for the Penn freshmen last year, and broke away for one long touch-down run against Cornell. Sikarskie saw little action last year due to an ankle injury. He is especially adept at quick starts and defensive play...
...lacks the experience required of a national officer. But being mayor of the City of New York is by no means a limited experience. That Wagner cut crime by 21 percent in New York City is not a recommendation for the Armed Services Committee, but Wagner proved himself equally adept in modernizing the city government, improving education and hospital facilities, and directing slum clearance. He has shown a Roosevelt-like ability to pick excellent advisers and to use advice effectively...
...characters in the film are adept at trampling upon each other's feelings, they are not, for this reason, more human. The play was about people--as Anderson said, "It is a play about the loneliness of the individual." With the movie, however, the focus shifts from the loneliness of individuals to the prejudices of a group. The housemaster, as played--mostly in grunts--by Leif Erickson, does not come out as a person, he is rather a symbol of the exaggerated masculinity whose persecution Tom suffers. With the film's emphasis on the "problem" rather than the people...