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Word: flair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice it some more, at one point holed up in the Steinway warehouse in Boston for six hours a day. Finally, last week Carter's concerto was given its world premiere, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony. Lateiner's homework paid off. He played with a flair and a command that are rare in such a complex work, and though the concerto provoked a few shudders among antimodernists in the audience, it was a treat worth the travail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Works: Treat Worth the Travail | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Shunning the novel and the theater, the Now People have a flair for film in keeping with their flickering values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Inheritor | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Ruthless & Demanding. In British political circles, Brown generally inspires either admiration or loathing-but little in between. In his rise in the Labor Party, he has exhibited a quick and imaginative mind, an instinctive gift for finding new approaches to problems and a flair for efficient administration. After years of representing the powerful trade unions in Parliament, Brown was made the party's deputy leader in 1960 by the late Hugh Gaitskell. When Gaitskell died, Brown was the logical choice for the leadership, but quickly ran into competition from Harold Wilson. Wilson finally beat out Brown in what Laborites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Let George Do It | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Forum has seven Graces. One is huge-eyed Donna Poitras, who overcomes her thankless ingenue part with a lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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