Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach courses in analysis properly, the Department quite legitimately feels it has a right to expect a solid background of technical knowledge and skill. This background is not to be found in high school music appreciation courses or in a the typical instrumental training of the amateur musician. Therefore, only those with extensive previous training, usually in a conservatory, are in a position to dispense with the elementary harmony course designed to supply the basic techniques of musical analysis. Since very few performers go to college even today, almost no student is exempt from Music 51, and it is through...
Besides Willie's skill and determination, we think he possesses the ability to communicate a sense of excitement and extra determination to the horse...
...friend that he had notified France and Germany "in the most polite and discreet fashion" not to combine against Japan, or the U.S. would "proceed to whatever length necessary." Later Japan began to thrash Russia. T.R., determined to balance the power of Japan, moved in secrecy and with great skill through intermediaries in Europe to signify a U.S. desire to mediate, and to douse the world powder keg altogether...
...Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches (she still wears an iron brace on one leg). By gritty determination Gypsy made her crippled left hand play an accordion again, never completely regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under a 1929 treaty, for injuries suffered in international flights (unless the claimant proves willful misconduct). The House of Representatives voted last August to award Singer Froman...
...Hollywood's film version of Separate Tables. In a tiny London theater he opened in Osborne's play at a salary of $126 a week. "I still disapprove of Osborne's social doctrines." says Olivier. "But I consider him a highly talented playwright. He has the skill to express the feelings of his characters who are unable to communicate with one another...