Word: flair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...
...amount of brilliancy in the practical rough-and tumble of life will ever make up for clear, wel-ordered thinking upon which to base sane judgment. No amount of instinct, flair or wisdom can ever take the place of intensive thought and study. And this is one of the gifts that scholarship confers, the habit of painstaking, analytical, thorough investigation of every problem that arises in life, the habit of clear thinking...
Where the Neighborhood Playhouse finds its actors is difficult to say. Certainly it finds good ones. The company has an evenness and a flair for the ridiculous unequaled since Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) and Gertrude Lawrence entertained with Chariot's extraordinary revue...
...background can be persuaded to enter Big Business. Big Business needs them. But so does the stage. And it has begun to get them, numerous additions to a pitiful handful, young men from Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, who have very apparent ability. That ability of theirs is four parts flair for the theatre, perhaps, but it is six parts intelligence, and intelligence may be cultivated. It would mean the stage millenium if it might be given the actor, or its lack revealed to him in a school before he makes one more in the stage struck multitude...
...defamers call the higher life. He is, if you will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur, what he once ruefully called himself- a "Nearly." He knows good prose when he sees it; memorable bits of it haunt him. ... But he has neither the flair nor the facility of a writer. He loves poetry without being in the least a poet. He 'gets' philosophy without being technically expert or agile or spiritually profound. He admires scholarship truly and yet has not the patience nor the exactness of the scholar...