Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better citizens. In view of the number of contributions made by the unfavored groups in the past, this thesis is absurd. In this respect the President's suggestion for a special, experimental quota of 5,000--to be distributed with regard not to nationality, but to cultural and technical skill--is a welcome prelude to a fulll-scale review of the whole concept of quotas based on national origins...
Kubitschek's character and stature are matters of heated debate in Brazil. Seen through hostile eyes, he is a lightweight, a mixture of playboy and opportunist. Admirers look upon him as a born leader with surpassing political skill, and an executive of great competence, with promise of becoming, measured by practical accomplishment, the greatest President Brazil has ever...
...Children's Hour, and even today is not above singing the tune she sang then (The Wedding of Jack and Jill). At seven she was performing such coloratura arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and Caro Nome from Rigoletto, and singing them with skill; at twelve she retired for further study, but three years later she was back in harness, ready for the long road ahead...
...late," said one newsman. "Otherwise. they would have been shouldering Madame Defarge away from her front seat at the guillotine." But the fierce ambition of the Skating Mothers paid off. In the midst of defeat in other events, the U.S. could still salve its pride with the lilting skill of Tenley Albright and Hayes Alan Jenkins, of Ronald Robertson and Carol Heiss, the spectacular figure skaters who swept past all opposition...
...much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter, could compose finer poems. His skill was uncanny...