Although Mr. Bush, who was personally directing the key aspects of the Panama invasion, relishes any opportunity to exercise his skill at personal diplomacy, he avoided direct involvement in the diplomatic play over General Noriega's fate.
The problem is a classic one, as in Lessing's "Laocoön," from 1766, regarding the adaptation of a poem by a visual artist: The sculptor had to exercise his skill in embodying the highest degree of beauty, exhibited under circumstances of bodily pain; a combination which it would have been utterly impossible to effect, had the latter been depicted in all its hideous violence.
The sculptor had to exercise his skill in embodying the highest degree of beauty, exhibited under circumstances of bodily pain; a combination which it would have been utterly impossible to effect, had the latter been depicted in all its hideous violence.
He was also the living embodiment of compassionate conservatism: a heart-and-lung surgeon who performed 150 transplants during his career and who continues to exercise his skills, even nipping off to Africa during his holidays to do some charitable operations.Mr Frist seemed to take a moderate tack in the culture wars.
David Falk, now forty-seven, is tall and bald (albeit not so tall and bald as his most celebrated client), and, with his Zegna suits and StarTac phone, he has become a fixture at the N.B.A.'s draft night, where he gets to exercise his skills at coaxing, cosseting, and cudgelling in rapid succession.
So it helps that the hospital setting of THE CONSPIRACY CLUB (Ballantine, $26.95) provides a number of bedside scenes for the protagonist -- not Alex Delaware this time out, but a young and caring staff psychologist named Jeremy Carrier -- to exercise his skills with patients facing grueling procedures like spinal taps.
Clemens was exercising his skills to the maximum of his ability.
They were useful models, and they were to hand, and he exercised his skills on them, possibly as a relief from the grandeur and pomposity of sitters such as Countess Howe and the plantation-owning Byams.
Also, it brought him outdoors, where he could exercise his extraordinary skill at capturing light and shadow and all the varied textures of picturesque places he traveled to, including Venice, the Alps, marble quarries in Italy, and the Middle East.
But he was able to exercise his entrepreneurial skills only after he linked up with Hemmings, and Hemdale began producing films.
Early on, Rodgers aspired to be an entertainer, and the life of the railroad worker provided him ample opportunity to develop and exercise his musical skills, to absorb a mixture of musical styles, and to catalogue the experiences of working people and southern small-town life that would later be at the heart of so many of his songs.
