Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over by the flood of inanity, fantasy and "uglification" now so widely acclaimed as art of importance and value. Your critic appears to be one of the few reviewers who have managed to maintain a sense of balance between experiment and accomplishment, between painting as a manifestation of skill, taste esthetic and plastic achievement as opposed to the accidental drippings, smearings anc daubings of the abstract expressionists...
...chronicle of England's last Plantagenet* king (1452-85), is one of the most powerful yet one of the clumsiest and least poetic plays that Shakespeare wrote. It is magnificently produced in this film translation by Sir Laurence Olivier, who not only directed the picture with taste and skill of a high order, but also "monkeyed around" with the Shakespeare script -cutting, transposing, and sometimes just plain changing-in a wickedly ingenious way. The cast Olivier has assembled is a Who's Who of the British theater-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom...
...modern composers were featured on the program. John Austin '56 contributed Two Airs that showed his skill in keeping counterpoint under harmonic control. The Airs were short and rather lightweight but they had a lovely lyrical modal style. The other, the String Quartet Op. 50 by Prokofieff, is a somewhat inconsistant piece. There were moments of inspired writing, particularly when the 'cello had the melody up high against bitter chords in the upper strings. The slow last movement, however, seemed out of place and style of the other movements. The work received a fine passionate reading from the Quartet, with...
...Skill is the criterion, not brute power or force; points not knockdowns; clear hits not knockouts. Intercollegiate boxing de-emphasizes power and emphasizes skill...
...skill of Boxing is the skill of a highly trained nervous system, capable of instant reflex action; it is the skill of perfect balance and graceful efficient movement . . ." tercollegiate bout, and is not its objective...