Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students wrote and performed a sharp satire on the wreck of Mt. Olympus (i.e., Russian Communism) and were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about the regime...
Rough Time. Against State last week, McGuire's troops moved the ball with such polished skill, shot with such consistent effect that they more than backed up his boast that Carolina teams rank with the best collegiate teams around. "We're all rough at home," says McGuire, ruefully reflecting on the unpleasant truth that North Carolina's teams knock each other off so consistently that their won-lost records suffer and they tend to slump in the national rankings. "But we can take any outsider. Any visiting team that comes down this way has a rough time...
...support Scott, Director Glenn Goldburg has used stage effects and the few minor characters with imaginative skill. Rachel Durand and Liz Keene, as Little Formless Fears, are visually intriguing; Fred Mueller's Withch Doctor is properly awesome. The half dozen shots fired in the play are startling in their loudness, but very effective, and the lighting, displaying Jones but leaving the jungle nearly black, achieves a difficult effect with skill. Lastly, the off-stage tom-tom pounder, Jack Hyman, should be congratulated for his faithful creation of the most memorable effect in the play...
...Olympic stadium could not erase international frictions and political embarrassments. But the worldwide contest of men against men, against time and against records, was under way despite wars and tensions. Competitors who had traveled half around the world to test their grace and strength and speed and skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual competitors, intent on winning an individual...
...They Were Married. Such absolute absorption in so remote, a skill leaves little time for making friends off the track. It was probably as much of a surprise to Parry as to anyone else when he looked up on his way to practice one day in November 1952 and spotted a pretty coed on the U.S.C. tennis courts. Caught off guard, he blurted out: "Lookit all them curves." Properly indignant, Sandra Cordrey told him to go put his shot. But the blunder evolved into romance, and next spring the pair were "pinned." Sandra soon got bored with playing second fiddle...