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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Tips from Santa Claus. While London's more mannered newspapers either ignored Heuss editorially or muffled their welcome, Cassandra, the acid-veined columnist of the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4.6 million), let fly: "Heuss has been marketed over here as a gentle, learned Santa Claus utterly removed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lest They Forgive | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Sophomore Scheu has performed impressively in the gap left by Lehigh's 1957 Little All-American quarterback Dan Nolan, completing ten of the 17 passes he has thrown. But a fair portion of his success must be credited to a brace of veteran ends--Joe Wenzel and Dave Nevil--who...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Football Team to Seek First Victory Against an Unbeaten Lehigh Eleven | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

Jonathan Kozol's book, published today, is a book for those freshmen and us other adolescents who figure sometimes we're not getting the most out of life. Now Mr. Kozol, despite his current tenure of a Rhodes Scholarship, is no Norman Vincent Peale selling deodorant in the locker-room...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Love and the 'System' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

Rounding out the poetry selections are four satires by Firman Houghton--those on Whitman and Houseman are especially funny--and an amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Audience | 10/7/1958 | See Source »

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