Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently producing only about 3% of its oil consumption, inflation-plagued Brazil has to pay out much of its desperately needed dollar income for petroleum imports. Many clear-thinking Brazilians, well aware that Petrobras lacks the capital and technical skill to undertake large-scale oil exploration, are convinced that the 1953 law stunts the nation's economic growth. But nationalistic sentiment remains overwhelmingly strong. How strong it still is became evident last week in the Brazilian Senate, which voted on a bill to amend the Petrobras law and permit 30-year oil concessions to private Brazilian firms. The proposal...
Mother Mary Joseph is retired but still lives at Maryknoll. Since 1947, Mother Mary Columba has run the order with great skill, humor, and an unflagging capacity for travel (every six years she must visit every single chapter house of the order, takes frequent trips between times). The Mother General plainly has the abilities of a top industrial executive-which she might easily have become...
While the women were onstage, the committee was pleased with the show. Picking a team was easy. Back on the long boards after a two-year layoff, Andrea Mead Lawrence, 22, first U.S. skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals (1952), whipped downhill with her old breathtaking skill, took first place in the slalom and giant slalom, tied for first in the downhill competition. Close behind Andy in the combined scoring, Katy Robolph, 24, from Reno, and Skeeter Werner, 21, from Steamboat Springs, Colo., poled home second and third to earn their places on the Olympic squad...
...people refuse to accept this fact: they struggle to release themselves by trying to make their lives different from what they are fated to be. This struggle, enacted with Greek gravity and formality, is invariably the theme of a Compton-Burnett novel. The skill she exhibits in playing witty and tragic variations on it explains why her fans agree with Critic...
...when love is itself the far country that is also home." Versatile Novelist Johnson-who is also a critic, a playwright and the wife of British Novelist C. P. (The New Men) Snow-sketches her woman's world, from perennial vamps to bone-weary matrons, with authority and skill. The book may not be everybody's cup of tea, but at least it is the strong-flavored, real thing-not some substitute out of a literary...