Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept Sweden out of World War I. Hammarskjold was from childhood a quiet, reserved person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...
...Surprise. Around the Tennessee hills, little Johnny's cool skill comes as no surprise. He was born to football. Johnny has four brothers, ranging from seven to 19, all of whom play; his father, Shirley Majors, coaches Huntland (Tenn.) High School's outstanding team, which has won 70 games, tied one, and lost only one in the last seven years...
Baltimore Bachelor Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a legal expert who prided himself on his skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world...
Tricks of Light. The birthright of British artists, as their Manhattan showing makes clear, is a love of portraiture and landscape. In the 18th century, Hogarth not only set down with unerring eye the look of crowded London coffeehouses, but portrayed the dissolute Englishman of his day with a skill and fervor far beyond mere pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave...
...laced devotion to duty and strong love for her family. She does so with great assurance. But the most impressive performance is contributed by Anthony Perkins, as the son who wants to go to war. In his first motion picture role, he shows himself an actor capable of rare skill and-as this picture requires-restraint...