Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America we have the manpower, the wealth, the natural resources, the genius to invent and create. We have the industrial skill to release that ever-flowing stream of new inventions and greater productivity wherein lies the future of our own America. I don't say to you, close your eyes and have faith-I say to you, open your eyes, look around you and be convinced...
English A, required by Corporation ruling of most entering Freshmen, aims chiefly at developing skill in expository writing. "Many students in the course, however," said Morrison, "have expressed a desire to do creative writing...
...genial assessment there is plenty to be pleased over. His young people are among the most authentic in U. S. writing; his middle class families are hardly less good. He is an apt recorder of U. S. dwellings, furnishings, streets, and qualities of weather. He has a warm skill for drawing-sometimes overdrawing-characters. Much that he writes of is massively representative of U. S. life; he manages to give it charm without falsehood; and he makes it seem virtually his own discovery...
...current revival of Juno and the Paycock, two distinguished Abbey Theatre players-Sara Allgood and Barry Fitzgerald-act the title roles (long familiar to them) with wonderful skill and spirit. Actor Fitzgerald's is the showier part, but Actress Allgood gives the more memorable performance. The supporting cast is feeble...
Though it is by no means "primitive' in nature, the are of these people approaches, and in many instances surpasses, both in external skill and internal infusion of feeling, the type of art which many contemporary men have been trying to recreate, namely African Negro style. Whether the similarity between the aesthetic end of the African tribes and that of the early Americans can be traced to any specific instances of direct influence remains a point for further discussion. Evidence points to the contrary. The stylistic similarities which exist between early African and early American art can be easily detected...