Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than vice versa. In such a half-light, Lubell regards President Eisenhower as, "one of the most masterful politicians in American history . . . adept in 'giving the people what they want.'" Ike's presidential success depends not on a "follow-me" type of leadership but on "the skill with which he has followed the public mood ... He has led the people by moving in the direction toward which they were already inclined...
...does have a good deal to say even in the atmospheric mist of his paintings. He also displays not only creative color sense but fine draughtsmanship. The economy of line and airiness of the ivory and sepia study Mother and Child are examples of the almost oriental sensitivity and skill of understatement of which he is capable...
...Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Since 1930 he has directed research and development programs. Before that he was a chemical engineer, small-town schoolteacher and all-Southern football tackle at the University of Kentucky. His background provided exactly what Wilson was looking for in his missiles chief: high technological skill, proven administrative ability, a talent for getting along with people, experience in a big organization...
...dinner in London with a group of 19 British Laborites, some of whom he himself had entertained in Moscow, Georgy Malenkov impressed the brethren with his skill and confidence under a barrage of questions. Laborite R. H. ("Dick") Crossman gave an account of the interview to reporters next day, later dutifully repudiated it in the face of official Russian protests. "He told us," Grossman said, " 'We have effectively prevented a repetition of the dictatorship of Stalin.' Asked in detail how that was done, he did not answer except by saying, 'We have done it.' " Did Malenkov...
Many British critics think that the author of A Perfect Woman is just about a perfect novelist. At 60, Leslie Poles Hartley couples some of the skill and suavity of Somerset Maugham with a show of sympathetic interest, an emotion that Maugham controls to the point of asphyxiation. Hartley's technical aplomb helped to make The Go-Between (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) one of the most admired novels of its year. In A Perfect Woman he demonstrates with good humor and feline subtlety how many ways there are for an author to tap and bat his characters around before...