Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...namely, the assumption that reform is impossible unless failure is admitted. Thus one who speaks of the great achievements of the past is immediately labeled as one who does not want change. Only those who are ready to assert that all the labor and energy, all the sacrifice and skill, all the character and brains that have been poured into the educational enterprise have resulted in failure are really progressive and ready for new developments. In point of fact the precise reverse is true. Reform proceeds best by capitalizing upon the momentum of success for further progress...
...most important thing about Honig's skill as a poet is that it is unobtrustive. He cannot afford to let flights of technical proficiency distract his readers from the spectacles of the moral circus that he is showing them, and so he keeps himself the lens through which they observe. When he distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only...
Unobtrusive Skill...
...hour. Later, Crump finished high school in night classes, took a leave of absence in 1926 to earn a railway mechanical-engineering degree at Indiana's Purdue University. He was hired back as a night foreman, advanced through various jobs until his combination of hard-rock experience, engineering skill and business talent paid off with the top vice-presidency...
...year at the Geographic Institute last night. All students in English Q were required to attend the exam, in tuxedos, but the time limit was closer to 15 minutes than three hours. Other members of the University, except proctors, were welcome, without tuxedos. Seven other speakers displayed their rhetorical skill, poise, and sophistication before English N. Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking, and a tape recorder. For the rest of the College, finals will not start for another two weeks, until Wednesday, May 25. They will continue then for two weeks, ending on June 7. Memorial...