Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Betsy Graves Reyneau has four portraits on exhibit. She clearly has solid technical competence, but her work shows an excessively smooth slickness that I find somewhat distasteful. Her subjects are Mary McLeod Bethune (1876-1955), celebrated educator and social worker; Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), the developer of blood plasma; Paul Robeson in his role as Othello; and Thurgood Marshall, who has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...makes the words of the script sound insignificant. The stage movement flows like burning lava. Babe is the rare director who can make a character say more in utter stillness than in long speeches. Time after time he strikes precisely the right movements, theatrical but true. His direction is smooth as a Rolls Royce and has the same quality of moving you without jarring you. When he uses shock, he uses it almost gently, to elict passion...
Harvard gained the U.S. position at the championships by defeating the Vesper Boat Club, Penn, and other top crews at the July 1 trials. Two years ago, it was Vesper that upset Harvard in the American Olympic Trials. But this time the Harvard team was too strong and too smooth. It won by two lengths, and moving away at the finish...
...path to joining Europe - or even to cooperation in joint projects - is not smooth," sighed Britain's Guardian. It was the understatement of the week. With lofty hauteur, Charles de Gaulle has heaped scorn on every effort by Britain to nudge its way into the Common Market. It is even getting difficult for the French and the British to stay partners in the ambitious set of joint aircraft-production schemes so loudly heralded over the past couple of years...
There is no doubt that the Syndicate exists and that it exerts virtually total control over the Federation. It is a tightly organized, extremely pragmatic group within and outside the YRNF. The smooth-flowing procedures (in contrast to rowdyism at previous conventions), the separation of delegation headquarters by as much as ten miles, and the failure to circulate proposed resolutions indicate how efficiently the Syndicate has consolidated its power since...