Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greenebaum's skill as a conductor was most apparent in Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat. He kept a careful series of balances between orchestral sections, while giving a firm and yet compliant accompaniment to the soloist. Trumpeter Jane Rogers played the difficult concerto with great skill. Beyond merely getting the notes correctly, a task in itself, she displayed a shimmering tone. At forte, her tone was never strident, and she also was able to play marvelously softly. It was a rare example of great musicianship on the trumpet, whose practitioners are usually content to dazzle their audiences with...
Thank you for your excellent article on Freud. It was put together with a maximum of skill and a minimum of partisanship...
Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
...wind from New York, Bob Baker, a pudge-pot from Pittsburgh, Johnny Holman a clown from Chicago, are the three top contenders, and a good kangaroo ought to be able to outwit any one of them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill to take over is another brilliant, but young (21), light heavyweight named Floyd Patterson. An elimination tournament to name the new heavyweight champion may well end with light heavyweights Moore and Patterson boxing for the crown...
...radio broadcast he charged that President Seiberling had once been booted out of the company by his father, that there had been family shenanigans in a transfer of Seiberling stock. On both counts Lamb was wrong, and SEC forced him to make retractions. To play up his skill as a manager, Lamb bragged that first-quarter earnings for his Air-Way Industries hit 31? per share, but again SEC stepped in, forced him to admit publicly that the figures were before taxes and had not been audited...