Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgium's Henri Vieuxtemps was perhaps the greatest violinist of his day, but until Cellist Jascha Silberstein performed his Cello Concerto in A Minor, it had never been heard in the U.S. Sigismond Thalberg was Liszt's great rival at the keyboard and a composer of considerable skill. Yet his lively fantasy on The Barber of Seville, exuberantly played at Butler by Pianist Raymond Lewenthal, is now a rarity...
Fortunately, real shooting skill was not a prominent characteristic of Western gunslingers. They were, as Fred Allen once remarked, only "half-fast on the draw" and far too quick on the trigger-an occupational affliction that the Rosa book implies was really an affliction of character. The Western gunfighters apparently had magnificent courage-and galloping neuroses...
...most of the credit. Jim Fabiani, one of the most versatile athletes in the House, smashed a roller halfway to third base to start Quincy's four run rally in the last inning, and Eliot's errors and a single by catcher Bob Teske did the rest. Luck, Not skill...
...true world situation and of the conditions of adult life, have an inadequate understanding of how difficult it is to effect constructive change, of how slowly substantial improvements are won when they are won, how much effort, concern, dedication and patience are required, how much knowledge and trained skill are needed, and how many conscientious efforts have been and are even now being made. It is also easy to fault the revolutionaries among them for such things as their manifest egotism and self-righteousness, their unwillingness to listen, the impatient orthodoxy of their so-called radicalism, their superior moral attitude...
Calkins is a liberal capitalist and sees that this (capitalist) society "needs" two kinds of people--highly educated professionals to run and manipulate from high positions in government and industry, and workers of increasing skill to actually produce the goods for society. Being a capitalist, Calkins believes that the rewards should be distributed largely to the former group, and that wage increases must be fought...