Word: skills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, would demonstrate to the world that the Carter Administration, more than any of its predecessors, is trying to break out of old foreign policy molds, willing to deal equably with diversity abroad and genuinely committed to the cause of human rights. Having frequently demonstrated his skill with political symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip in the popularity polls, however, he left home anticipating no heavy returns from this trip or the one in March. Said a senior U.S. official...
...epochal one-reeler in which he tried on Fatty Arbuckle's pants and Chester Conklin's jacket. In that moment The Tramp was born, and with him a long parabola of triumph and humiliation. The arc described a career bred of deprivation and encompassing nearly every cinematic skill, from producing and directing to the writing of scenarios and scores, gags and tragedies...
...After the dramatic German rescue of hijacked Lufthansa passengers at Mogadishu two months ago, a Dutch diplomat's mind wandered back uneasily to the abyss: "You can't help getting the shivers at the precision with which the rescue operation was carried out. It was German military skill at work again...
Scott is why they are there, and Jeremy Geidt, Michael Gross, Max Wright and Stephen Rowe convey that with rare skill and sensitivity. Unfortunately, Hill, while decent as a saint, lacks the lightning that fires blind fealty in other...
...strength of the book, beyond its magnificent descriptions and its subtle humor, lies in McPhee's skill in presenting a broad, multi-faceted picture of Alaska today--no simple task, for Alaska is an enormous state, stretched still wider by the conflicting demands of conservationists, oil men, settlers, Indians and politicians, all of whom view each other as interferers and encrouchers. He accomplishes this portrait without the familiar posture of tepid objectivity, by adopting the point of view whoever he is with. He is, in effect, a man of every loyalty, and of no loyalty at all, achieving a rare...