Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet future: "Communist society will consist of cultured and developed people. As a result of technical development, the working day will be shortened and there will be more time for education.. Thus, the problem of 'professionalism' will solve itself. People will have time to acquire skill in many fields and be able to move about from one profession to another...
...serious play, Deep Are the Roots, really clicked. When Broadway looked back (not too searchingly) at the war, it found that nowhere was the war so dead as at the box office. When Broadway looked at the disturbing in U.S. life, it showed more social conscience than skill. But a social conscience was alive in the theater, and even slick comedy smashes like Born Yesterday and the Pulitzer-Prizewinning State of the Union took pot shots at political and social targets...
...French Communist Party; it is in it. With 1,000,000 members, 5,000,000 voters, six ministers in the Cabinet, the French party is the first Communist Party in any nation to make a serious bid to win a majority through democratic processes. The consummate skill which the French Communists show in using democratic methods does not, of course, mean that the party is moving in the direction of democracy. The party organizers have merely learned another language in which to pursue totalitarian aims...
This week's election of a new Constituent Assembly is a critical test of that effort; from what happens at France's polls the whole Western world may learn how strong the Communist threat is. The result depends largely on the skill of the men who lead the French Communists...
Most of the evening is devoted to conversation (a handful of good Hecht & MacArthur cracks, a hunk of fancy chatter about psychiatry and art) and to pianoplaying. Twelve-year-old Jacqueline Horner plays Chopin and Mozart with precocious skill; but the concert by no means makes up for the claptrap...