Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women's clubs, is a courtly Kentuckian with effortless charm...
...Villanova Miler Ron Delany reeled off an effortless 4:03.8 at the Chicago Daily News Relays, whipped Maryland's Burr Grim by 25 yds., came within two-tenths of a second of the American indoor record...
...null centuries. One such temple figure, Worshiping Goddess, although now defaced and devoid of some of its multiple arms and symbols, would still speak to the devout. Her ample breasts and hips hark back to primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong eyes, high-arched brows and attenuated fingers, touching in prayer or greeting, the inner spiritual tension meant to guide the viewer in his devotions...
...Morse's legalistic pedantry ("I am waiting for the opposition point of view to provide some answers before I proceed to rebuttal and surrebuttal and rebuttal of the surrebuttal") to Indiana Republican William Jennet's naked cynicism ("Here is the Walter Mitty dream plan for an easy, effortless world"). It remained for two Democrats, one seeking a drastic change in the resolution and the other making an eloquent plea for its adoption without amendment, to flag down the issues and get the Senate back on the tracks...
...McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered and nearly flawless. He clearly recognized the limits of the Mozart style and stayed within them. The only incongruities were the two cadenzas--fascinating but stylistically too advanced--which on later inquiry turned out to be by Beethoven. There were also from time to time some rough edges...