Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HRBDC's team displayed its prowess this weekend at a competition in New York, which Hurtada said was "about as good as a competition gets." Hurtada said HRBDC's team won first place in two categories and second in another...
John Henry is the quintessential railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
...weekends ago, Cornell's defense was the victim of Eckert's scoring prowess, as he racked up five goals and two assists...
Leads Laurie Ann McGowan (who will alternate performances with Alexis Zeiff Martin) as Mimi and Frank Ragsdale as Rodolfo are warm if low-key lovers. Vocal prowess combined with comfortable English diction compensate for somewhat subdued interaction on both parts. (Those who saw "La Traviata" last year can't help but feel a pang of deja vu as McGowan lies dying of tuberculosis in the fourth act with Ragsdale clasping her palm...
Rascoff claims that creative writing can't be taught because literary quality is difficult to gauge. "If it is un-judgeable, it is also un-teachable," he argues. I agree that it is difficult to find a standard for evaluating creative prowess, but this does not mean that it is impossible. Also, if something can't be judged, it does not mean that it can't be taught. Having taken Philosophy 140 (Deductive Logic) last semester, I can safely say that "un-judgeable" does not imply "un-teachable...