Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essential Skill. Radioisotopes are ticklish things to handle; tiny specks of some of them can kill. Only skilled scientists can handle these new tools with safety. Such skill is spreading rapidly, and as it spreads, the U.S. is acquiring scientific know-how-which is far more valuable than the perishable "secret" of the Bomb...
...short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume for the first time. Old as they are, they bear none of the scars of age; their disembodied timelessness is a witness to Forster's skill...
Whether because of Sartre or the translator, the style is undistinguished, but every major scene is full of suspense and excitement, even over trifles which can be attributed to virtuosity in drawing character and planning situation, rather than skill in surface texture. Scenes, like the one in a night club where Mathieu and the narcissistic Russian girl whom he loves each slice open their left hand as a mutual sign of defiance of respectability, are convincing and indicative in themselves, and at the same time advance the story. But through it all, there is something unhealthy, embodied perhaps in Sartre...
...doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous to a promising writer. By the time he has got himself the technical skill and enough money to be independent, he has been divorced from literature...
...Most of the men," said Haines, "want to get into a single right away. But we don't let 'em. They lose their skill in the singles because they have to worry all the time about staying aboard...