Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waves, streamlined and spectacular. It had all the usual Shostakovich features, including special, de luxe, noncollapsible climaxes, probably the most efficient roof-raisers of their type known to the trade. Conductor Artur Rodzinski put it through its power-dives with a veteran test pilot's skill. At times the orchestra glittered with satire; at others it seemed to strum itself like a giant balalaika...
Westbrook Pegler (174 papers, circ. 10,000,000) has a literary skill "beyond question, but very few of his methods are consistent with any attempt at honesty, either emotional or intellectual. . . . They make one curious to know whether [he] is not aware that venom is a more marketable commodity than reason. . . . His readers cherish his cholers. . . . His circulation has risen with his blood pressure." Praised: the Peglerizing of Racketeers Willie Bioff, George Scalise...
Walter Lippmann (150 papers, circ. 10,000,000) is the Olympian . . . "no man writes with more skill and a better heart when dealing with democracy ten years and 10,000 miles away." But the onetime "brilliant spokesman of liberalism" has been "running neck and neck with general Republican opposition, calling upon the courts to liquidate the New Deal and upon the stars to view the general iniquity in Washington." Columnist Fisher finds Lippmann's "comment on world affairs comes from a background of study and close observance which scarcely any contemporary journalist can touch" . . . but three months before Pearl...
...which cannot fly), to 300-odd Golden Dolphins, a society of submariners, first became a "mother" to seven American aviators who tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes her son-given home their rendezvous and trophy room, numbers among her Kiwi names Lily Pons, Carl Van Doren, Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell. After her red-hot friend's show she smiled: "Sophie is a wonderful person...
...life, American death. There is the attempt on the part of a few others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take quick cover, each moving jerkily with a quality of loneliness in the midst of action with which no loneliness of peace...