Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
Although the Pentecostals are not as adept at head counting as at soul saving, there is little doubt that they outnumber traditional Protestants by at least 4 to 1 in most Latin American countries. Pentecostals claim a million and a half members in Brazil. In Chile 700,000 of the country's 835,000 Protestants belong to Pentecostal churches. One out of two Puerto Rican Protestants is a Pentecostal. There are 112 Pentecostal churches in Greater Buenos Aires, 1,200 in Mexico, including Mexico City's 10,000-member Templo Central de Pentecostes. Spanish-speaking migrants have founded...
...Already adept at handling the federals, the centers might thus shield universities from Big Science's "triple disease-journalitis, moneyitis, administratitis." Able to Say No. Meanwhile, a hopeful sign is the new Federal Office of Science and Technology, created in June to coordinate the research contracts of 75 federal agencies. The new office will police wasteful duplication of research projects, and perhaps curb research empire-building...
...week some of the area's most "hopeless" youngsters aged eight to twelve, put on a boffo production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the Yeats translation. They had already staged Cocteau's Orphee at their 60-seat Philadelphia Theater for Children, an abandoned slum building. Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old Christopher Speeth, the only white teacher at 76-year-old Arthur School. A lawyer's son, Speeth grew up in Cleveland...
...this would be rather silly if it did not discredit serious experimental drama. Some of the work of Eugene Ionesco and Edward Albee will almost certainly become established in the repertory of genuine comedy. Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," for example, is a thoroughly adept treatment of the theme Ellis Andrews has toyed with in "The Two-Headed Baby." The Ionesco work succeeds because it was written by a good writer; the Ellis Andrews "experiment" fails miserably because it was written by a bad writer. So we come to the essential fact: good drama is simply good writing, whether...