Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British felt especially keenly the danger of taking a dollar loan without assurance that they could pay with exports to the U.S. Keynes had not come hat in hand, though he knew he would have to make concessions. It would require all his spirited, almost oratorical negotiator's skill to reach a ground that both Congress and the British Cabinet would find reasonable...
...Netherlands Government's official information service described the scene: "He called for brushes, paints and canvas. -Working with the consummate skill of a master, a painting in the very spirit of the famous 17th-Century artist slowly began to materialize. There can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
Even when they fly still intact, rattletrap, ungainly, frail, murderous, the suicide planes are lonely and individual as faces, macabre as hearses, cryptic as death itself. And against the "men who want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
...overall casualty ratio of about eight Japanese killed for every American dead or wounded was final proof of the superiority of the U.S. strategy of envelopment, U.S. field tactics, the U.S. infantryman's fighting skill, U.S. air power, sea power and fire power...
...says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...