Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Composed with the novelist's superb literary skill and his eye for compelling human detail, Gulag II is based on a wealth of solid documentation. This includes official Soviet records and the testimony of hundreds of victims, including that of Solzhenitsyn himself, a prisoner for eight years in the gigantic "archipelago" of Stalinist labor camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. Between 1918 and 1959, Solzhenitsyn believes, 66 million men, women and children were shuttled to these islands of slavery under the pious official slogan "Correction through labor." In fact, Solzhenitsyn charges, it amounted to "extermination...
...last third of The World of Lenny Bruce re-creates the shrunken courtroom hell of the beaten man. It is Author-Actor Frank Speiser's indubitable triumph, a coruscatingly impressive display of acting skill. His mind chatters, his hands tremble with terminal withdrawal symptoms. He is a burnt-out case spilling his legal papers and tapes while the cool, disembodied voice of the law tells him that his case is closed. Merely to look at him is to be terribly moved: one beholds the dumb, spent eyes of the fox at the end of hunt...
...different story with today's black middle class. Rather than being formed in segregation, they drew their inspiration from the civil rights movement, which destroyed legal segregation in America. This triumph imbued many blacks with a pride, confidence and political skill they had not known before. It also made them far less color-conscious than their middle-class predecessors. For many, in fact, black became "beautiful." Toughened by struggle, some of these blacks may now be the superachievers of American society. Sociologist Daniel Thompson argues that contemporary middle-class blacks are "105% Americans-the modern translation of the American...
...reporter was serious, and none of his colleagues laughed. Their silence was a tribute to St. Clair. At some point, the best advice he could offer Nixon might be to head for the border. But Nixon is not that desperate yet, due in large part to St. Clair's skill. He has fashioned Nixon a stonewall that is battered and under siege, but it still stands
Geertz's citation reads: "A deserving scholar who with masterly skill probes ancient societies for new light on the relation of religious belief to human behavior...