Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day, but effort has not translated into results that can be labeled as his own. In the Senate world of committees and compromises, his executive talent and experience are wasted: his is only one voice out of 100, and there is nothing for him to decide except where he himself stands...
Fourth, that the teaching talent available is a more important consideration than the subject matter of these tutorials, and that the program should not restrict itself to any field, such as Contemporary Civilization...
...presence of Mr. Senturia as the orchestra's conductor, together with the acquisition of so much new talent has made a great difference in the morale and performing quality of the group. Mr. Senturia has reached a good balance between preparation and spontaneity, between attention to concerts and the more private activity of sight-reading in rehearsals. His conducting is not subtle, but it is rhythmically sure, as was shown in the complicated Stravinsky pieces. But much more important is the sense of enthusiasm which he communicates to the players, which is reflected back to the audience in performances that...
...exceptional talent been disappearing from many newspapers' city rooms? See PRESS, Guest Speaker...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...