Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered. cane-thumping farmer of great wealth and rectitude...
...unexpected show of skill, the epee team won seven of its nine bouts. Jim Roberts in epee and Jon Piel in sabre each went undefeated in three matches...
After a candidate has shown sufficient skill to convince the Photo Editors that he may be electable, he is given the chance to do a "photo feature." He selected a particular activity, or an aspect of Harvard life, and characterizes it by a series of pictures which are generally printed as a full-page insert. A successful feature can be the peak of a candidacy...
From the moment a picture is conceived until it is engraved on the CRIMSON's Fairchild engraving machine, the photographic board of the CRIMSON executes one of the most original functions of the paper. Interest, not technical skill of expensive equipment, is the only qualification demanded
...both playwright and director of The Possessed, Camus combined his evolving philosophy with his considerable theatrical skill. To handle the novel's bewildering rush toward chaos, Camus uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean...