Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's top professionals may not be greater players than the greats of the past, but they have brought new vitality, a new look and a high standard of technical skill to the game...
Propaganda bombast aside, Ho Chi Minh, dead or alive, provided the crucial element in North Viet Nam's astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
...There was no comparison made in any study between bused blacks and bused whites because no white bus schedules were altered in-any sample group, and he reports that five of the ten studies found conclusive gains for bused blacks over their non-bused peers in a number of skill areas. The remaining studies are of questionable conclusiveness (in each case by Leach's admission) due to lack of controls, sampling bias, and as I pointed out in the case of Ann Arbor, because testing for effects was done too early after the policy change...
...Taubman began practicing for a fast set or two with his subject. Unfortunately, Connors declined the challenge, pleading a need to rest a recently sprained ankle before his match with Newcombe. It was just as well. Taubman took up tennis at eleven and is a weekend player of some skill and ferocity. Yet in a series of poolside conversations with Connors at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, he found the world's top seed "talking about a wholly different game - a repertory of shots and spins, angles and strategies of chesslike intricacy calculated several volleys in advance." Taubman came...
...family car. But along the way he is creating conditions of health, enjoying the weather and collecting some valuable human truths: every forward motion costs effort; balance means a total involvement in the task; energy has its limits; to stop precipitately is to court disaster; and, of course, a skill once learned is never quite forgotten...