An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.

No question, our inability to handle their pressure was the difference. I'm not taking anything away from Michigan State. But we didn't make very good decisions.

Not only has Harold Pinter written some of the outstanding plays of his time, he has also blown fresh air into the musty attic of conventional English literature, by insisting that everything he does has a public and political dimension,

They did not handle it as they should have.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.