Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinary phenomenon in the new history of diplomacy and a striking vindication of the President who sent him. First, it was a performance of sheer physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied tales...
...suggested a ten-second prayer to be pasted on dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed in body. Deliver me from the spirit of rivalry and from all resentment at the actions of others and bring me to my journey...
These worthies are under the direction of Mr. Kilty, who has deployed them with considerable skill on a graceless set by William D. Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...
Probably the best female impersonator since vaudeville's late famed Julien Eltinge, egg-bald T. C. Jones, 39, has been working at his special skill ever since 1946, after he had abandoned study for the ministry, done a hitch in the Navy, and finally crashed Broadway. He earned critical raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima...
...markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed to let him try his skill with the great log alone in a locked room. But after several days, when he had heard no sound of hammer and chisel, the king flung open the doors. The old carpenter was nowhere to be seen; there were only three large idols-Jagannath and his brother and sister, Balabhadra...