Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncommon about heroes) is that Ike's past achievements spring from some mysterious and possibly noble qualities which, however, are not connected with the job he would have to do as President, and have nothing to do with such practical matters as organizing ability, power to make decisions, skill in analyzing situations, etc. Ike had to be specific to prove that a hero doesn't necessarily have a head of clay...
...Guts and Skill...
...gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...
...reason about history and to see the well-perceived person, place, or event, not from the point of view of our own times or of our party or of the age under consideration, but from history's own point of view, which is human . . . Philosophy cultivates the skill of examining. It leads the student to theorize . . . Like letters and history, philosophy is a skill as well as a corpus of experience...
What keeps The Revenge for Love from sharing the same shelf as Darkness at Noon is not lack of skill. It is the moral lint from Lewis' erstwhile infatuation with Hitler. References to Australian aborigines as "Blackboys," Hindus as "Baboos," and the Jews martyred by Nazi Germany as "offending Jews," shows that while Wyndham Lewis was rocking the cradle of humanism with one hand, he was cradling a rock of bigotry in the other...