Word: self-taught
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...Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal for 12-meter yachts. Like Gretel...
Only a common soldier, Martin sketches no sweeping historical panorama as a background to his own adventures. But as an uncommon writer, the self-taught Yankee chronicler makes a corner of that panorama come alive as never before...
After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display...
...comedy is buoyantly performed, a happy tour de farce. Donald Moffat, in the role of John Tarleton, the self-taught underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...
...toughest critics of U.S. journalism schools have always been journalists. They range from the self-taught reporter who resents any man with a college degree to the well-educated editor who objects to watering down college curriculums with courses in headline writing. Last week the University of New Mexico's Keen Rafferty, 59, chairman of the smallest accredited journalism department in the U.S. (two faculty members, 45 students), talked back to some of journalism's biggest critics with some rip-roaring criticism...