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Sheen, whose current television series was taped before he went to Rochester, has lost none of his flair for phrase making. Describing the church's problems in one pastoral letter, he wrote: "God is telling us something in the new situation in which we find ourselves. The rending of the veil of the Temple in an earthquake opened up the Holy of Holies to the world, and the earthquake of secularism has shaken us out of hiddenness and complacency...
...appears to have awakened yet another romantic streak in the masses. The first of the new breed was Martin Ritt's deliberately ugly adaptation of Spy Who Came in from the Cold; there followed The Ipcress File (which might be termed a transitional product), and now The Deadly A flair, The Quiller Memorandum, and Funeral in Berlin...
...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...
Shunning the novel and the theater, the Now People have a flair for film in keeping with their flickering values...
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...