In this week's Poet's Choice column, Mary Karr contemplates the baseball season via ancient Japanese poetry, quoting this contemplative poem by Raffael de Gruttola, from "Baseball Haiku": lost in the lights the high fly ball that never comes down There are also books of haiku devoted to cats, rednecks, mothers, and Jews, but "Baseball Haiku" is rare for its apparent skillfulness.
The players' consummate skillfulness was immediately apparent in their opening volley: a crisp, kinetic account of the first section from Steve Reich's canonical 1971 work, "Drumming".
For all his skillfulness in creating harmony among a murderer's row of egos, Torre drew the line at letting his players determine the batting order.
Their ability to shoot the ball well and pass the ball well adds to their skillfulness".
And while Drogba might not have the individual skillfulness that's prized in Brazil, he's more than capable of a few well timed quick steps and deft touches on the ball.
By studying the social structure and behavior of the crows and the details of their difficult daily lives, the researchers hope to gain new insights into the evolution of intelligence, the interplay between physical and social skillfulness, and the relative importance of each selective force in promoting the need for a big animal brain.
The economy, precision, and wit of her prose style; the shrewd, amused sympathy expressed toward her characters; and the skillfulness of her characterization and storytelling continue to enchant readers.
If children were constrained by skillfulness rather than by size, they said, then the differences between adults and children should show up in measures of success in fishing tasks requiring keen cognitive powers, and they did not.
Her wisdom, talent, skillfulness, compassion, respect and caring for all people made her an extraordinary clinician, teacher, colleague and friend.
One picks up her contemporaries, like David Lodge and Anita Brookner, expecting not just skillfulness but a decided familiarity from book to book.
But his quiet, unassertive manner belied his political skillfulness and daring, and he quickly reversed longtime policy and pushed a huge spending package and a number of other economic measures through Parliament that temporarily halted Japan's economic slide, though at a heavy cost to taxpayers.
