Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Rummaging into his living," he once said of his profession, "the poet fetches out the images that hurt and connect." Yet he came to regard poetry as a kind of graceful, skillful game (which sometimes required the spectator's use of the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, not to mention...
The novel's primary strength is in Kelman's skillful guidance of the gradual emergence of Lesley's character: as the cuteness about her modus operandi evaporates, he forces a re-examination of the sources of her original appeal. Her apparent virtues quite rightly are transformed into vices: her serenity...
With skillful management, especially in restoring credibility to the Phase IV guidelines, most economists believe that such a possibility can still be averted.
The holder of one of them is Dr. Eduardo Plarr. Plarr's British father has been held for years in a Paraguayan prison, and Plarr has not only become involved with the kidnapers but is the lover of Charley Fortnum's young wife. When Fortnum winds up a...
In its heyday, King's S.C.L.C. could raise as much as $2,000,000 for one year's operating expenses, primarily by skillful use of one of the country's best mailing lists (208,000 names) aimed at white liberals in the North. But public interest in...