Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which is of no special interest; Lewis W.Lehman's lights are excellent, as are Esther Small's costumes...
...simply made fewer errors on defense, skated faster, and showed more skill on breakaways than the Crimson. Too often the varsity defenders were content to poke check at their own blue line, often letting their man get through...
From the Soviet point of view, it was a disturbing fact that Mikoyan's trip had made no visible dent in the unity of the Western allies. British and French officialdom, in a rare vote of confidence in U.S. diplomatic skill, admiringly agreed that Washington had handled Mikoyan adroitly. In West Germany the U.S. had accomplished the diplomatic equivalent of the hat trick. While rock-hard Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rejoiced in his belief that the U.S. had "held firm" against Mikoyan's blandishments, the opposition Social Democratic Party was happily convinced that the U.S. had displayed "new flexibility...
...Mercedes-driving friend (who denies that any race was involved). Ahead of him, the friend saw the Jaguar suddenly go into a long skid. "I thought: 'Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen an hour to extricate Mike's body...
...short, Harvard should strive to fulfill the purpose for a college set for itself in "General Education in a Free Society"--"It is to give to the nation and the world as far as it can both trained skill and responsible judgment." At the moment there is too much emphasis on trained skill, whether intentionally on the part of the Administration or inevitably. There is too little emphasis on the exercise of responsible judgment during a student's undergraduate career. More important, "the world" is increasingly becoming the essential, but limited world of scholarship...