Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this elaborate training system accomplishes is 1) the preservation of a great Russian dance tradition and 2) the dazzling acrobatic skill and cheerful dedication that somehow bring conviction to even the hoariest ballet plots. What the Russians' training does not give them is new ideas; their great weakness is oldfashioned, unimaginative choreography and a concentration on emotional music, uncomplicated stories and characterizations of line-drawn simplicity...
...Secretary of State Herter flew into Geneva at week's end to speak for the U.S. at the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting on Germany. Ahead of him, in the negotiations at Geneva's history-haunted Palais des Nations, Chris Herter faced the sternest test of skill and nerve of his career...
...elevation and intensity, The Roof falls short of the best neorealistic films, but in technical skill and in the subtlety with which it makes its points it ranks among the finest. Director De Sica humanizes the harsh material of the story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their...
Benjamin put on an impressive show of skill and courage in winning ten of the varsity's 40 points. In the mile, he led a fine field nearly all the way, until Cornell's Chuck Hill came from behind and caught him ten yards from the tape...
Gordon was surely one of the best captains in recent history; his running skill and his leadership held the team together. Benjamin's gritty victory in the Heps typified his tremendous determination that gave him one University record and may yet give him another. These two, along with 11 other seniors, will be missed next year...