Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rues the last that he didn't begin early enough, first discovering painting in an art class in his sophomore year of high school in Sweden, where he was born. Before, he had been good at drawing; but, he adds, "that was the sort of skill you weren't supposed to be good at unless you drew boats and armies...
...some domesticated chills: Laura and her hidden zealotry may be a menace to Anne or the children. Can the babysitter be stopped before she does something awful? In fact, violence does occur near the end, but the real focus of the novel has long since shifted elsewhere. With considerable skill and subtlety, Gordon has constructed a series of intertwined meditations questioning the nature and even the value of motherhood...
...reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance." This qualified apology sounds like a reply to her friend and rival Virginia Woolf, who in 1919 dismissed the novels of Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett: "They spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring." Woolf's comment conveys an assuredness (this is trivial, that is transitory) that now seems sadly dated. West's wise record of small acts, daily tasks and obscure manners breathes with new life...
...predecessors, but whether he will pursue it more effectively. The answer is more likely to be yes than no. Since he injects the continuity of Soviet policy with a vitality that it has lacked in recent years, he may also bring to the Soviet-American competition more energy, skill and ingenuity than his recent predecessors, in their decrepitude, could muster...
Tens of thousands of volumes of Chernenko's collected essays and speeches and countless propaganda posters emblazoned with his quotations could not quite conceal the flaws of a man whose only real claim to power was his skill as a Communist Party functionary. Nor could they dispel the fact that Chernenko had come to power with little time to live. The record of his brief tenure in the Kremlin was etched with the painful images of his faltering struggle to rule and hold back the ravages of illness...