Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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their spirit. You, beyond the mere skill, used your...
...undergraduate community. Some--like the language clubs and the casual hobby groups--do little more than provide an opportunity for individuals to pool their common interests. Others--the student publications and drama groups, for example--pose some sizable problems for the educator through their burgeoning competence and professional skill...
Then her right leg went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually...
...shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski's moral force and political skill that kept Poland quiet and Russia's tanks out. For this Wyszynski, once criticized for his willingness to compromise, is now an undisputed hero to his countrymen...
...watercolors and drawings Greenman has command of a definite style. It seemed to me however that she strives too much for a decorative effect. There is something about her crowd figures reminiscent of Reginald Marsh, without his strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however...