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Coach Bill McCurdy and his assistant Al Wilson are after that "latent talent for track and field which slumbers unseen, unknown--and worse, unknowing. That's the talent we want to develop," Wilson said...
...concert opened with the acid sonorities of the Quartet for Piano and Strings. Instead of the usual Coplandesque breadth of expression, there is a depth in this work, a concentration of latent forces than cannot be grasped at first hearing. It will probably be a long time before the work is fully understood by the musical public. There seemed to be certain errors of judgement in the piece however: the uninteresting piano writing in the first movement, the curiously out-of-place whimsicality of the second, and the thin, widely spaced, unpleasant harmonics near...
...power within the Labor Party, and rescued Winston Churchill from a situation that was causing him real concern. The issue which the House of Commons debated was whether Britain should stand beside the U.S. in whatever new perils may come in Asia. Tangled in that issue was a latent mistrust of the U.S., a concern over Britain's role of junior partner, and the political ambitions of Left-Wing Rebel Nye Bevan...
Jordan, like everybody else, appreciates the evils of overemphasis and an extension of "spring" practice back to December. But he sees--and it's hard to disagree--that without honest spring workouts to enable development of latent, or "rough" material, coaches will be forced to beat the bushes for finished talent. Your search will be for stars, instead of players. The resulting recruitment drive would shame even the Marines...
Unshakable Respect. In Washington, Congressmen of both parties are well aware of MacArthur's latent popular appeal. After his dazzling return to the U.S. last spring and the dramatic hearings, he soon moved out of the public notice. Then, between sessions in the fall, Senators and Representatives going back home discovered that MacArthur had not faded away. The feeling is not enthusiasm so much as unshakable respect and confidence. It varies geographically, is most pronounced in the West and Midwest and least in the East...