Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Richardson's acting skill creates a highly idealistic, moralistic, and intelligent egoist who seems to be smiling behind every sarcastic remark. Richardson can flick his cane, turn a phrase or look mildly amazed with almost quicksilver brilliance...
This week a Manhattan gallery opened a show of Barbara Hepworth's paintings, including 20 studies of the operating theater. In them, what the artist calls "the beauty and skill of the hands, every gesture perfectly related to the mind," the intent eyes of doctors and nurses peering over their tightly drawn masks, were caught in delicate pencil-lines, illuminated with eerie blues, greens and yellows...
...over by Authors Alva Johnston and Gene Fowler (who turned over all his notes to Biographer Taylor). An ex-newspaperman and author of some of The New Yorker's smoothest profiles on amiable eccentrics, Taylor strings out the Fields anecdotes (first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) with skill and devotion, content to be entertaining about one of America's greatest entertainers...
...When a student applies to us for a job," Holt continued, "all we have to do is look in our new file under his particular skill or job-preference. The rest is simply a matter of telephoning the people listed under that category...
Last year the group was amateur and called professional. This year it is professional and called first class for imagination, polish, and skill, but especially for imagination...