Word: adeptly
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...weak elements in this production were those scenes in which the shipwrecked nobles of Naples and Milan wandered through the isle. For their scenes were so naturally acted that they almost seemed underplayed-against Prospero's forceful presence, there was little doubt as to who was in control. To adept what Pasternak has written of Hamlet, the order of the acts has been schemed and plotted, and nothing can avert the final curtain's fall...
...really needed is enough string or twine of the desired color and degree of strength, some hefty pins and a soft board. The strands are pinned to the board at one end, then the loose ends are knotted together repeatedly in either clove hitches or square knots. Any reasonably adept amateur can quickly create belts, bracelets and necklaces; in a few months, he should be turning out vests, dresses, overskirts, ponchos and other body coverings. Highly skilled artists like Mrs. Bernard concentrate on enormously intricate wall hangings. A much smaller but equally intriguing macramé work is a bikini...
Fast Operator. Since then, the operation has been refined and perfected. The Cleveland Clinic alone has done nearly 2,000 bypass grafts; institutions like Stanford University Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital have performed hundreds. Few surgeons are more adept at the operation than Effler, whose team does at least half a dozen...
...Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which found the number of women in the Faculty "disgracefully small," has urged Harvard to adept new recruitment guidelines and new career patterns designed to facilitate the hiring of more women...
This book is superficial, fragmentary, tendentious, scholastically disreputable and continuously fascinating. The author is billed as a humanities professor (32 years old, Ph.D. from Cornell, now teaching at York University in Toronto). In fact, anyone can see that he is some kind of mage, adept at issuing spells and performing mind-rattling tricks with bits of brimstone. Still, the questions that he poses are enormous. Where on earth is man heading next? Where, for that matter, has he been...