Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season progressed, tailback Dick Bracken began to show a flair for running as well as passing, and with the return of Martin and Weber, the Tigers have begun to roll...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...number of speakers blamed this, as well as the rigidity of the curriculum, for taking the flair out of the "dazzling" students who enter the Med School. Another speaker argued that even more of the graduates would be dull and prosaic if they had not been bright enough to withstand the stultifying experience of the Med School's present course of study...
...SYMPHONIES (2 LPs: Deutsche Grammophon). The modern symphony, says Henze, tends to be either "a replica, an elegy or an echo," and he illustrates the point with his work, which is reminiscent of Stravinsky. The 40-year-old composer's symphonies are nonetheless enjoyable and full of theatrical flair, as might be expected from a man who has written such successful operas as King Stag and Elegy for Young Lovers. Here the first three works, dating from his early 20s, provide atmosphere but no action. The fourth is richer, unwinding in one movement from gentle plonks and smoothly flowing...
...practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge protruding from a wall and collapsed against the Steinway. Revived, he refused a bandage for the one-inch gash in his forehead and, bloody but unbowed, trudged off to play with a driving intensity and the pyrotechnical flair of a young Horowitz...