Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school earlier to acquire the arts of sociability. They are graded and even seated not by what they know or can do or by temperament-but in accordance with their ability to cooperate. At what? At cooperating. "The children are supposed to learn democracy by underplaying the skills of intellect and overplaying the skills of gregariousness and amiability-skill democracy, in fact, based on ability to do something, tends to survive only in athletics." The six-year-old group helps form its own other-directed character with the harsh judgment "He thinks he's big!" Everyone is cut down...
...midseason Willie Mays and his home-run bat were the hottest pair in the National League. Swinging with the delight of a schoolboy and the skill of an old pro, the loose, limber centerfielder of the New York Giants had clouted 30 homers to threaten Babe Ruth's alltime record of 60 in one season...
...only way to beat the game, says the professor, is to learn how to decipher the fine type in the form charts. From these cryptic figures the patient handicapper may judge a thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the assigned weight, the skill of the jockey and the ability of the trainer. Then he must learn how to check his judgment in the paddock. Does his horse look nervous? anxious to run? Matheson, says Matheson, can teach the student how to tell...
Under De Gasperi Italy's agriculture came back to 100% and national income reached $16 billion, an alltime high. But the country was still harassed by ancient social cleavages, wide gaps between rich and poor, and suspicious anticlericalism. The Communists, with persistent skill, took advantage of De Gasperi's conciliatory tactics and his fear of provoking an open break between left and right in a land where democracy was still insecurely planted...
Dreams Like Wine. Tanguy's reputation is based on the stubbornly continuing popularity of surrealism, on the fact that most critics tend to praise anything they do not understand?and, most of all, on skill. It may be even harder to picture things the world never saw than to picture everyday things, yet Tanguy paints the odd detritus of his dreams as crisply, convincingly and decoratively as Chardin painted food and wine. He also has a literary flair. Tanguy's paintings may be practically interchangeable, but the obscure titles he gives them are varied and provocative?Mama, Papa Is Wounded...