Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong can you be and still hold your job or seek one as an "expert...
Rizzuto, who heads a faculty staff of nine major league stars, listened to some coaching tips from Elder Baseball Expert Bernard Baruch, first-baseman at City College of New York some 60 years ago. To 1,200 boys between the ages of 10 and 18, the staff will teach the finer points of baseball and sportsmanship...
Kazmaier brothers have followed and fostered Dick's athletic career with expert eyes, though neither they nor Dick's high-school coach ever dreamed they had an All-America performer in their backyard. Dick's father, his foremost fan, who constantly admonishes his son not "to get a swelled head," hops into the family's 1951 Chevrolet almost every weekend and drives the 600-odd miles from Maumee to watch his son play...
...Scripter S. N. Behrman, helps Actor Leo Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last Supper. In the role of the lascivious Empress Poppaea...
Novelist John O'Hara is an expert at pinning down two kinds of people: those who get hurt easily and those who have a genius for hurting them. His victims and victimizers usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling...