Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime & Proportion. In brown-eyed, British-born Margot Fonteyn, Sadler's Wells had its coloratura. Her perfectly proportioned ballerina body (5 ft. 4 in., 112 Ibs.), her effortless grace and technique had U.S. ballet connoisseurs and critics going back for comparisons to such ballet immortals as Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessivtzeva and Tamara Karsavina, the sometime partner of the great Nijinsky. Just behind Fonteyn were two other fine dancers who could take her roles: tall, handsome Beryl Grey, 22, and flame-haired, 23-year-old Moira Shearer, dancing star of the British film The Red Shoes (which...
...plot, if you can call it that, never stops Astaire from going into his effortless dance. There are only enough complications to pad the entertainment out to ninety minutes and let the dramatics fall where they...
...good bit of the trouble with 'Briton Hadden' is in its style. Busch is a senior editor on 'Life,' and he writes with all the brightness and clarity that go along with the frequent superficiality of that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...
...this is true of 24-year-old Truman Capote, it could explain why the two best stories in this collection are about remarkable ten-and twelve-year-olds. These two stories, Children on Their Birthdays and Jug of Silver, are written with full sympathy for their juveniles and an effortless command of the scene. They could become small classics of their kind...
...among them: the Austrian shepherd Anton Seelos), Emile was never quite satisfied with what he was learning. He began jotting down notes on new theories, would steal up a mountain even at night to try those theories out. Soon he had a style all his own, so fluid and effortless that in 1938 the French Ski Federation adopted it as official. It was a revolution in skiing technique. The French revolution has been spreading ever since...