Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...
Faced with this and the additional fact, that more people are now in America's schools than at any previous time, educators have panicked. They have not got enough time or money or teachers or skill to do the job assigned to them...
Anna was performed last week for the first time in the U.S. in more than a century when the American Opera Society opened its fifth season in Manhattan's Town Hall. During its brief lifetime, the company has proved that it can mount operatic oddities with unique skill and flair. Its entire season is already a sellout by subscription alone, and when hundreds of people were turned away for last week's performance, the company quickly scheduled another evening of Anna for next month at Carnegie Hall...
Typo Trick. This fourth U.S.-published novel by Heinrich Boll (Adam, Where Art Thou? The Train Was on Time), best of Germany's postwar novelists, needs all his skill to emerge convincingly from a clumsy translation. A typographical trick of frequently capitalizing phrases and sentences, sometimes to convey the thoughts of children, sometimes for no discernible reason...
...either laugh or applaud. And with good reason. The triumph of Chayefsky realism lives in her response. The author's lines and scenes are so full of recognizable truths, of familiar details, of realism, that the audience has no trouble at all entering his play. This is an impressive skill. I wonder, though, whether the realism and the truths are not mostly too small to make powerful theater...