Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hensch found his wife waiting in a car by the field. He gave her the flowers, the porcelain snail, the rat's fur walrus and the note. She translated it haltingly. It said: "On the 100th day of the blockade God lives with you flyers. Health, happiness and skill for all of you and a quick return to the old days, and the joyous end of the blockade...
Sienkiewicz's interviewers at Santiago's stadium listened, smiled, went on talking about the good jobs in Chile's southern fish canneries. Sienkiewicz got worried, pleaded with camp authorities for a chance to show his skill with a cello. At last they called in a group of musicians. The little man played for them. By nightfall, Cellist Sienkiewicz was the talk of Santiago...
...Reciprocal Curve. It was not Nadelman's academic skill that started all the talk. Right alongside of his classic nudes he was showing other figures geometrically distorted in a way that foreshadowed cubism. Describing them in his Journal, Novelist André Gide wrote that "Nadelman draws with a compass and sculpts by assembling rhomboids. He has discovered that every curve of the human body is accompanied by a reciprocal curve which opposes it and corresponds to it. The harmony which results from these balancings smacks of the theorem." Gide had put his finger on one undeniable weakness of Nadelman...
...surge toward church unity. At one of the meetings that paved the way for the final, formal establishment of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), the disagreements were so sharp that it seemed humanly impossible to reconcile the conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle me pink...
Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...