Behind the scenes, the company was forging ahead: Antony Tudor continued as the most significant choreographer, Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins made some of the defining works of ballet Americana (Fall River Legend, Fancy Free), George Balanchine created his masterly Theme and Variations, and a generation of American-trained dancers, notably Nora Kaye and Alicia Alonso, emerged.
Eventually, Charles Powell, Thatcher's foreign policy adviser, devised a masterly solution to appease the Japanese: "The two roses are different in appearance, but if an error has been made, the prime minister very much hopes that it can be satisfactorily and easily resolved.
Kahn's choreography gets a second showing in Chotto Desh, a version of his masterly solo DESH which has been specially adapted for young children.
#OscarsSoWhite mocks Academy snub of actors of colour Rather as I feared, the film that I personally felt strongest about — Richard Linklater's masterly Boyhood — might actually be fading in this Oscar race, and that's despite an extremely strong showing in the Golden Globes.
In the late 1960s, however, something snapped, and he turned his masterly brushwork to something new.
Doing so makes you a better person, Mr Frauenfelder argues: master, not prisoner, of your environment.The book echoes Matthew Crawford's masterly and reflective, "The Case for Working with Your Hands", a bestseller in America which has just come out in Britain.
But sometimes, as John Calhoun, a member of America's Capitol Hill club long before our own club was even dreamt of, once said, "the highest wisdom...is, a wise and masterly inactivity".
The unstageability that has so often deterred directors in the past was overcome by a masterly use of light and shadow on a stage which was kept almost completely bare.
Those who have enjoyed his rhyme and rhythm, for example, will be interested to know that they are underpinned by a masterly poetic technique.
Many of the books of the time are more discussed than read because copies are rare.To address that problem, Canongate last year published an 800-page volume, "The Scottish Enlightenment; an Anthology", edited by Alexander Broadie, which provides generous extracts from key works and masterly brief introductions.
"There is a limit to the number of roads, schools, clinics and water points that can be built and serviced effectively in any one year," it pointed out.In this section Haughty indifference, or masterly inactivity?
