Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universality is by picturing what one knows well. He returned to his own country-boy beginnings for inspiration -and came to be hailed as a Bruegel of the Corn Belt. July Hay, one if his best pictures, suffers from a finicky foreground and stagy middleground, yet shows a solid skill and assurance...
...attack; in New York City. In the late '20s, at the height of his career, he began losing his sight but continued to act, in 1932 successfully played the part of the blind beggar in Synge's The Well of the Saints, acted other roles with such skill that audiences often forgot that he could...
...Barry Morely, who has been haunting G & S productions at Harvard long enough to be of proven worth, the cast is amazingly lusty and pleasant to hear. Furthermore, it shows great initiative and skill in presenting Trial By Jury as a curtainraiser. Under the banner of the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship most of the same group that has supported Morely in other productions is on hand. They all know their business, and make it a pleasure for the audience...
...always worked before. Explained one Western observer: "It isn't the trick which has changed. But the kids have grown up." The West had indeed grown up, and showed a surprising unity in defense. But the Russians have only aged rather than grown with the times. With practiced skill, the West's Foreign Ministers took up Molotov's GETO. It was clearly a proposal to push the U.S. and Britain out of Europe and lock the European countries up with an aggressive Russia...
Shaken Rope. The jet stream is not like a surface river, confined between solid banks. It whips around like a shaken rope, and to predict its position, speed and direction takes both knowledge and skill. Pan Am gathered all available data and added observations of its own. Last year, its meteorologists felt they knew enough to take the plunge. The Stratocruisers were regularly scheduled to fly nonstop from Tokyo. The first flight made Honolulu in 11½ hrs. instead...