Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine talent had been put to doing evil. By the jury's verdict he was marked as a man who, having dedicated himself to Communism under a warped sense of idealism, had not served it openly, but covertly; a man who, having .once served an alien master, lacked the courage to recant his past, but went on making of his whole life an intricate, calculated...
...recent play combines so much polish with so much weight, or expresses its insights with so much of the gaiety which Stendhal demanded of healthy art. But what is most important is that The Cocktail Party is a kind of triumph of spoken drama. Its author is a master of both language and verse, and his play asks only for performance; it does not require a production full of gauze curtains, revolving stages, trick lighting and various sound effects...
...Master of the Mightiest. An all-out disciple of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, Hap Arnold suffered a brief exile in the Army doghouse when he appeared as a defense witness at Billy's court-martial. But thereafter, he rose steadily, always trumpeting the importance of air power. In his leisure, he wrote a series of boys' books on aviation (Bill Bruce Becomes an Ace). In 1938 he became Chief of the Air Corps. In 1942, when the Army Air Forces were set up as an independent arm within the Army, Hap Arnold was its chief...
Looking like a morose but determined bantam rooster, small (5 ft. 2½ in.) Chess Grand Master Sam Reshevsky walked to the center of the crowded game room at Washington's Jewish Community Center. He acknowledged the applause with a faint smile, then turned to face the 42 opponents who were waiting for him. It was exactly 8 p.m. By midnight he had beaten 32 of his brooding opponents, fought the rest to a clucking draw...
Doves in the Blue. Heroine Rosie, a camouflaged veteran of Alamein and Tobruk, starts south during the battle for Italy, driven by her lord & master. Craftsman Snowy Weeks of the British Eighth Army. His mission: to plant a few flowers on the grave of Shiner, his late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...