Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blaming serious tactical blunders and "fiendish" weather for what he calls U.S. mountaineering's worst disaster, Expert Alpinist Bradford Washburn added: "It's amazing more people haven't been killed on McKinley when you consider 400 are killed in the Alps every summer...
Died. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky, 60, wife of Plane Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition grounded her; by her own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in Northport...
Then into town comes a strange breed of Nigra (Sidney Poitier). He's just passing through, but at home in Philadelphia he is a "top homicide expert" on the police force. Steiger sees him as a perfect scapegoat, but the widow, recognizing the incompetence of Steiger's bumbling staff, demands that Poitier be put on the case. To Poitier this is an ironic challenge. He is uppity enough to welcome the chance to put on airs with impunity, and he proceeds to demolish Steiger's plan of attack with a gusto that borders on the sadistic. Thus...
...evening's best playing came in the first three movements of the Eroica. Lazar led with authority, observed all the repeats, and superimposed no un-indicated retards. The tone had body, and the rhythm had vitality. Carl Schlaikjer's oboe-playing and Daniel Farber's kettledrumming were particularly expert; and all the hornists negotiated their treacherous parts with real heroism. There were some bad moments, such as the ragged fiddling at the start of the first movement's coda and the end of the funeral march; and a woodwind passage in the trio of the scherzo was muffed the first...
Hugh M. Raup, expert in forestry and plant geography and Director of the Harvard Forest, retires from Harvard of Forestry, Emeritus...