Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guys who talk like Two Head." Cannon knows them because he was born & raised in their midst, on Manhattan's lower West Side, still lives in a hotel midway between Broadway and Madison Square Garden. At 17, as a copy boy on the Daily News, Cannon's skill with words caught the city editor's notice. Once, when a crank invaded the city room and introduced himself as "God," Cannon answered: "Pleased to meetcha. Heard a lot aboutcha...
...view were paintings as rich and carefully tended as a French vegetable garden: romantic scenes of a tiny village huddled in the hills, a lush tree-carpeted mountainside, a sparkling bay near the artist's home at St. Tropez on the Riviera. All were drawn with consummate skill, lovingly done in muted greens, earthy browns and greys. Segonzac was pleased by the success of his new paintings. Said he: "It is easy to show traces of genius at the age of 20, but it is difficult to still have talent when...
That Maras was able to switch so quickly and so successfully--from one line position to another (even with the professionals) is obvious evidence of his football skill. He was especially adept at defensive play, working from a unique "two-point" stance. Linemen generally face the opposition either on all fours or else on one knee, with a hand down for support. Maras, however, stood on his feet, crouching forward so that his hands swung just clear of the ground. From that position, he could move quickly in any direction, and could use his hands to fight off blockers...
...largely because it objected to a chapter called "The Press," in which he accused newsmen of everything from sending dispatches that "mislead thoroughly" to doing a "disservice to the fighting Army." Voorhees charged that most correspondents were "extreme" pessimists who sowed "doubt and fear among Americans as to the skill and honesty of Army leaders." They seemed, he says, "indifferent to the consequences of their dispatches. They appeared to pretend they operated in a vacuum, above criticism, shorn of responsibility, answerable to no one or nothing save the signers of their paychecks." Some correspondents broke, or evaded, censorship, says Voorhees...
...Plaster Fell." Happy as he is with his art, Goodman thinks the timpanist's skill is not sufficiently understood. He doubts whether even conductors-since few have ever been timpanists themselves -can thoroughly appreciate the subtleties of a kettledrummer's tone and pitch. But only the deaf can miss it when the percussion comes in wrong...