Word: deftness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be unfair to classify Christopher Lasch's Christmas 1853 with either of the above, although it does not approach Kimball's work. In this deft psychological study of a young girl his juxtapositions of image and idea are sometimes very effective. On the whole the piece manages to create a mood, although it tends to leave the reader wavering between conviction and bewilderment...
Dulles had gone to Berlin amid predictions that he had much to lose and little to gain. By his deft handling of European issues, and with the stout help of Britain's Eden, France's Bidault, he had exposed Russia's designs for Europe and brought Britain, France and the U.S. closer together in the face of these designs than they have been for years. But in Berlin's last hour, the Big Four had issued a communique setting up still another conference, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 26. There, with Communist China sitting in, they would...
...thus with a deft courtesy and in a manner almost inconceivably frustrating to the highly ordered world of any lady buyer, she was led for fifteen minutes from paint supplies (Mr. Abercrombie) to the farm store ("that completely kills them") to ladies' lingerie ("They begin to catch on here, our falsetto is not so good.") The tour winds up in the automotive department (Mr. Chrysler speaking) and with the buyer, incoherent with rage attempting to get the operator...
Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
...charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...