Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays, by Harvey White and Deric Washburn, received an enthusiastic reception yesterday from a sizable mob of theatrical types and other mortals. Neither meaningless nor messianic, the two pieces display humor, occasional wit and much technical skill, and under the aegis of the Harvard Dramatic Club, they were well and speedily performed. Anyone who has a special interest in local dramatics should not fail to see them a repeat performance, today...
...mind the other fellow was in I could answer that better." But the best new plus for the West at this early date was the frame of mind of new Secretary of State Herter. In Paris he showed a sort of genial, mellow, welcoming warmth along with known professional skill. "He knows his dossier," said a French diplomat...
...outside world could judge, Red China's leaders were in the process of providing for the succession, and doing so with an apparent unity that-whatever else might be said about his regime-was a tribute to the organizational skill of Mao Tse-tung. They acted at a most delicate time, with a revolt in Tibet, with economic disorder at home, and with the nation exposed abroad as a truculent aggressor with no regard for Asian opinion...
Under the circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next...
...after telling off Xerxes), but as the melodramatic cliches become less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper in a drama of love, war, and deception, there is a chorus strutting about occasionally, singing things like "Prepare to fight with skill and might," and a priestess (attractively played by Elizabeth Theiler) going through a mystic ritual-dance...