Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always wanted to glide, he has heard and read so much about the sport, and yet he has never actually seen anything bigger than a two-foot model. He knows somebody, however, who knows somebody who has done the most wonderful soaring at Elmira, staying up through his own skill and knowledge of air currents...
Best represented artist is Degas. In his portrait drawing of Manet, and in the "Lady Reclining in a Chair," he reveals his skill as a draftsman. With a few long, easy, flowing lines he brings his sketches to life, for it is life and movement that he is most interested in. That is why he drew so constantly the dancers of the Paris Opera. The one painting of a "Ballet Dancer" on display illustrates his characteristic treatment of this subject. The figure, which is light and graceful, wears a light blue dress with spots here and there of sheer color...
...immediately associated with Cubism, and the common notion about Cubists is that they work in their peculiar manner because they are unable to do otherwise. In this drawing, however, there is not a trace of Cubism. Quite to the contrary, it shows a draftsman who, in technical skill, is almost equal to the great artists of the Italian Renaissance. Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity which can hardly be excelled, and his handling of many different bodily positions is expert in the highest degree...
...unchallenged. Six days a week, for an estimated $65,000 a year, in 116 papers reaching nearly 6,000,000 readers, Mister Pegler is invariably irritated, inexhaustibly scornful. Unhampered by coordinated convictions of his own, Pegler applies himself to presidents and peanut vendors with equal zeal and skill. Dissension is his philosophy...
...Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that for excitement (and, at times, for skill) matches Typhoon. The Archimedes, a trim, 9,000-ton oil-burning freighter, westbound from New York, hits the trick hurricane two days out of Colon. This is on Thursday. By Sunday, when the hurricane abates, the Archimedes is a shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn...