Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literary flair was there from the first. At ten, he wrote a novel; at twelve, he was jotting down his own verses for folk melodies. One day in 1945 he heard a group of washerwomen singing his lyrics. "That did it." says he. "From then on I was poetry-struck." After wartime evacuation to Zima, he made goalkeeper on an all-Moscow schoolboy team and signed up for professional soccer. Day before he was to report for training, Soviet Sport published his first poem to see print, and Zhenya turned his sights on literature's big league. He started...
...Ford Foundation has granted $125,000 for a ten-year study that may measurably alter admissions policy of the nation's colleges. Under the grant Williams College will examine students admitted "with less-than-outstanding grades and test scores but with promising qualities that defy scientific measurement" such as "flair, forte, strength of character...
...done so with no real flair for acting, for it is truer of Tucker than of al most any other tenor that, in the Italian phrase, "the opera is in the throat." What emerges from Tucker's throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio...
...figure also fits the wife of the President of the U.S. It is Jackie's own ladykin, a dressmaker's dummy that has all of her dimensions. To this dummy, whenever the call comes through, flock busy seamstresses with costly fabrics and a sense of dedication and flair that is not often seen, say, at quilting bees. They fit and they pin, they cut and they stitch, and when they are all finished, the result gets its picture in the papers, filled out this time by Jackie herself...
Since Eva and Walther are not figures so mystical as Elsa and Lohenrin, they require both in melody and acting a flair that Jutta Meyfurth and Marion Alch possessed. Miss Meyfurth sang Eva with a strength of passion less suited to the part than simple delicacy; still, she handled her forcefulness well. Alch had a proper impetuousness and mastered the demanding range of this part, but the song with which he won Eva was marred by swallowed vowels and consonants. The directors must assume much of the blame, for they cut the second stanza of this crucial song...