But "Glengarry" is not a new play; Mr. Sullivan is a highly proficient director; and the show's cast is made up of sterling stage performers.
Likewise, a proficient director of mayhem like Bay is not necessarily suited to create emotion; in fact, in today's Hollywood, people who can do one usually can't do the other.
Like a proficient Hollywood director from sixty years ago, he has found the right balance between star glamour and social conscience.
He won another for his aerial photography on the 1942 wartime drama "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Mr. Neame was regarded as a proficient, understated director who occasionally drew critical praise with choice material and first-rate casts.
Not that everything is harmonious at the council, despite its fresh facade -- an obviously proficient and charming new executive director, Jane Baxter Lynn -- and new headquarters in Greenport.
"It takes four years to become fluent in a language and two years to become proficient," said Dilka Román, the Tennessee director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
In May, results showed that about a third of eighth graders who took its science exam were proficient, a statistic Gerry Wheeler, interim director of the National Science Teachers Association, slammed as "unacceptable".
It is also increasingly challenging for sustainability professionals to make a coherent business case to directors that are not proficient in environmental acronyms or intricacies.
These are technically proficient productions, directed by Stratford's artistic director, Richard Monette, but without virtually any remarkable aspects, from the sterile sets by Guido Tondino and Meredith Caron to unappealing costumes by Ms. Caron and Ann Curtis.
Despite my affection for both plays — Actors Co-op recently staged a first-rate "Smoke" — the delicate amalgam of pathos and poetry mined by director Dana Jackson and her proficient cast here raises a persuasive argument for Williams' opinion.
By 1943, Mr. Alessio had become director of the bank and was proficient in Spanish.
