Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longtime internationalist, Warren's domestic views are more liberal than those of almost any other prominent G.O.P. candidate. Dewey indicated that Warren would get the job of reorganizing the nation's executive departments, take on a large share of administrative work. His big, easy Scandinavian charm and gift of homy, off-the-cuff phrases make him an extremely effective campaigner, would add needed warmth and folksiness to the ticket...
...latest gift in a series of presentations, begun some 20 years ago by Edsel, continued by his widow since his death...
Scissors & Paste. Olivier was determined to make the play clear in every line and every word-even to those who know nothing of Shakespeare. For the most part, he manages to elucidate even the trickiest turns of idiom by pantomime or a pure gift for thought transference. But wherever it has seemed necessary, old words have been changed for new. Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists...
Actually, there were two Millers: one was a foul-mouthed exhibitionist who admitted his reputation for using "obscene language more freely and abundantly than any other living writer in the English language"; the other was an exuberant writer with a gift for describing the vividly seamy...
Margery Sharp has a sharp eye. But it takes more than that to be a really good writer. In her slight, pleasant novels (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...