Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Mr. Cooper's limited talent is a great liability, it would take remarkable skill to make the role of Isherwood meaningful, or even to justify its prominence in the play. Adapting Isherwood's Berlin Stories for the stage, Van Druten has tried to transcribe not only the characters, but the form of the stories as well, with Isherwood the passive observer of Berlin life in the thirties. As the chronicler of the life around him, the Isherwood of the book can afford to be passive, "a camera, with shutter open." As a character in a play, however, the same...
...family nurse took him to Brussels, and a family friend offered to pay for his education. De Staël studied with an art teacher who sent him on bicycle trips all over western Europe, where he practiced by copying masterpieces in museums. His enthusiasm waxed with his skill. But he had no popular success at first, often went hungry. During World War II, he served in the Foreign Legion, went straight back to his Paris studio afterwards. Then Georges Braque befriended him, other artists dropped round to his studio, and slowly De Staël's reputation began...
...memoir of his difficult years as a child genius. Now a mathematics professor at M.I.T. and a pioneer in the development of machines to do the work of men (Cybernetics-TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), he has written a book that rivals in psychological interest, if not in literary skill, the recollections of such other youthful prodigies as John Stuart Mill and Samuel Butler...
...courses, which meet three hours a week and stress oral instruction, will be discontinued. All other courses, including intensive classes which meet six hours a week and "A" and "C" courses that meet three times a week and emphasize reading skill, will remain relatively unaltered...
...Enfants is a story of Paris before the revolution, of actors and street entertainers. Arletty is an actress named Garrance, mediocre in her theatrical skill, but inordinately wise in the ways of people and of love. One feels at times that her strange love affair with Barrault, the great mime Baptiste, would be mawkish and unbelievable if both artists were not so expert, and if the direction were not perfect. It is quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands...