Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen is not easily embarrassed, and he is an expert at prolonging a story that keeps his name in print. Throughout the week he piled on new copy, calling on the President to express his attitude in unmistakable terms, accusing Len Hall of trying to ram through Nixon's nomination, arranging for still another vice-presidential poll. This weekend, on Face the Nation. Stassen said he was "foreclosing any consideration" for President or Vice President in order to bring about an "open" 1956 convention. "Forever?" asked a reporter. Said Harold Stassen...
...young educational television station WGBH turned over its weekly program "Performance" on Monday evening to members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus for the second time. The resulting 50-minute concert, again under the expert leadership of Harold Schmidt, proved highly enjoyable if not quite up to the level of last summer's show. The shortcomings were due to two factors: Schmidt's essayal of more difficult music, and a less effective use of the television cameras...
Rand's two-man team, Russian Expert Melville J. Ruggles and Arnold Kramish, nuclear intelligence specialist, got most of their information from surprisingly nonsecret sources: the files of Russian scientific periodicals lying almost undisturbed in the Library of Congress...
...think of himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight and well woven as good wicker. The costumes fit, love and virtue always triumph, and the swordplay is the most expert, the flashiest since The Three Musketeers...
This week the nation's bookshops are stocking a Sabatini bargain. In the Shadow of the Guillotine contains three novels with a French Revolution setting: Scaramouche, The Marquis of Carabas, The Lost King. Even people with literary pretensions can admire the expert workmanship. Others will simply enjoy the storytelling, the color, the sweep and energy that were Sabatini's trademarks. Picking up this neat, compact volume, many an old fan will be glad to see him back...