Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fewer and fewer contacts with whites. Parts of her commitment to Africa stems from politically-active South African expatriates she met there. Her contribution, she says, like her parents', will be in the form of service--thus Seidman says, she should get an advanced degree or tangible skill to bring back...
...floozy upstairs, who sports low necklines and is bedeviled by brown supermarket bags that disintegrate from below, "Oh, her cantaloupes are always falling out." Keaton pays so little mind to the awkwardness of the line, to its prewashed vulgarity, that she makes it charming. Talent like that goes beyond skill; it is a kind of bonkers genius. Jay Cocks
What's more, Ambler has something that I've never encountered in a one-author marathon. Most prolific scribes have annoying catch-phrases that they use over and over, or favorite weird words. You get to feel you're on to them. But Ambler has the effortless writing skill of a British education. His style is sure and undistracting--it goes down easier than lemonade in August. By the gallon...
...individualism and nativist Main Street values--anti-black, anti-foreign, fundamentalist--has historically passed as a unique American conservatism. Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan stand as separate archetypes, both backward-looking but emphasizing different elements of a preferred American past; the first upholding rugged and unfettered entrepeneurial skill in an age of strangulating bureaucracies, and the second a world of small-town community unperturbed by urban industrialization and its symbols...
...between studying, Philippe Bennett applied his emotions, skill and intelligence to fencing, and he has not done badly. He has not only become one of the top college fencers in the country and a captain of the Crimson fencing squad, but also an Olympic prospect...