Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lean, tall and well-muscled (5 ft. 10½, 144 Ibs.), Althea Gibson is not the most graceful figure on the courts, and her game is not the most stylish. She is apt to flail with more than the usual frenzy, and she often relies on "auxiliary shots" (e.g., the chop and slice). But her tennis has a champion's unmistakable power and drive. Says Tony Trabert: "She hits the ball hard and plays like a man. She runs and covers the court better than any of the other women." Says Promoter Jack Kramer, who eventually would like...
...painting, made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with palette and easel and take to the hills or the canyons of the Big Bend. A prolific painter, Spruce takes only a couple of days to complete a canvas, sells his paintings...
...concert concluded with Beethoven's Quartet in F Minor, Opus 95. This is the last quartet from the composer's middle period. Beethoven labeled the work "quartetto serioso," an apt designation belied only by the racing Rossinian coda to the last movement...
...Wellesley then has followed the practice of saving the best wine for the second course, its aperitif, Carnival King, is a doubly apt reminder that one must be careful about putting old wine in new bottles. The play, a new one by England's novelist-biographer of Dylan Thomas and King Arthur, Henry Treece, is a rather close reinterpretation of Marlowe's Edward II, minus Marlowe's sensitivity, depth, and clear focusing of the issues...
This gruesome little melodrama could be forgotten had not Novelist Rimanelli, with more sincerity than art. compelled the reader to believe that he too has been one of the hungry Mediterranean aborigines on the harsh hillsides where tourists never go. As a commuter between continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh...