Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approval rating at only 36%-equal to the previous low point in his presidency last January. This evidence of public disapproval may be somewhat exaggerated, as were the hosannas celebrating the first anniversary of Ford's takeover from Nixon. His assets remain the same: honesty, directness, considerable political skill. When he promises, as he did last week, to "get the Government ... out of your lives, out of your pocketbooks and out of your hair," he is in tune with a widespread mood. At the same time, such pledges can hardly be sufficient in the long run. Perhaps unfairly...
...Bakshi had any genuine skill as a satirist or draftsman, these spiritual descendants of the Uncle Remus characters might have become participants in the sort of Swiftian drama he apparently intended. There are hints here and there of a desire to demonstrate that black street styles are not stereotypes at all but put-ons. Such disguises can-sometimes-help individuals to get at least some of what they want with out permitting a hostile world to know that they are trying. Bakshi's sensibility is too vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around...
...factory to make muskets. Whitney established the American vernacular: economy, simplicity and flexibility, which, in industrial terms, were translated as quantity, standardization and interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created the largest single segment of industrial civilization-the semiskilled worker...
...serious candidate for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, 53, a lanky, breezy Westerner, is not reluctant to press the comparisons. As a relatively obscure Representative from Arizona, he knows that his chief asset is going to be the impression he makes. With considerable candor, a skill at raillery and a gift for not taking himself too seriously, he makes friends fast-if not ardent converts to his presidential quest...
...team can concentrate on playing long enough to win a game, let alone three world championships. There is often anarchy in the clubhouse, with players in an uproar about Finley or, in a spillover of antagonism, battling each other. That they still win is a tribute to sheer skill and unshakable self-confidence. "We win because we have guys who love the challenge," says Bando. "We have a nucleus of gutsy players who don't know how to lose...