Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. Says Shelley: "This girl has a very important talent"-for the dance, she means, but she is mistaken. Silvana mambos like a self-conscious tourist. Her real talent is her uncanny beauty, all cool glow and rich simplicity, and a sensational figure. Then, too, it takes no little skill to read with a straight face such lines as those with which this picture concludes: "There was left to me only what I had learned through work, heartache, and a rich but tragic love-that, and my talent as a dancer. Perhaps, in ... the absorbing world of the mambo...
Clive Brook plays this pukka sahib version of Marlon Brando with a skill that makes "stiff upper-lip" an entire facial expression...
...selection shows a fair balance between realism and abstraction. Some attempts to "be modern" like Paul Biechel's abstraction "City and Street" betray a lack of technical skill or real imagination. Many of the best artists in the exhibit, however, do find natural expression in less realistic styles...
...watercolors are on the whole less inspired, with the exception of Katherine Compton's bold, stylized head "Medusa" and Margaret Philbrick's "Willard Brook." Charles Demetropoulos demonstrates his usual skill in the treatment of reflections; a very wet wash catches the slick rain-swept pavement outside the "Museum of Fine Arts." Unfortunately he is not so meticulous in the overall composition...
...Horton," President Pusey commented last night, "with his deep concern for the Church Universal, has the point of view, the skill, the experience, and the learning both to lead the Divinity School into the mainstream of scholarly activity within the University, and at the same time to keep its work helpfully related to living religion in the churches and among the people of this nation and the world. We feel singularly fortunate to have secured his services to help us in the advancing program of our Divinity School...