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The field is a broad one, and if you have talented eyes and skillful hands, you will not find it difficult to develop a visual appreciation of many things from many cultures
Over & above these professional qualifications, Colonel Boyd demands that the test pilots have agreeable personalities. They are, he feels, ambassadors of the Air Force to civilian engineers and designers. They must criticize airplanes sharply, point out defects, suggest changes. Everybody is happier if such work can be done tactfully. Colonel...
We were all impressed with this skillful management of the throng. The audience hadn't heard Mr. Barrone at all, because the orchestra played some loud music to cover up for him.
Readers may be disturbed by two weaknesses in this otherwise skillful story: its occasional lapses into stilted novelistic clichés, and its too convenient ending which veils coincidence with the appearance of fatality. But for the most part, Mist on the Waters is as good as a first-rate...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can...