Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. John Galsworthy: "Her talent was unique among us. . . . her work stirs and excites us, and so quietly; it is an expression of the mood in love with life. It has the rare flavor that endures. Beautiful work...
Victor Herbert, America's best known composer of music and the one without doubt best dowered with native talent, is conducting a cinema orchestra in Manhattan, the picture being Little Old New York. Herbert wrote the incidental music for the play. This is something of a novelty. And yet the music that goes with cinemas, frightful as it usually is, has an especial place and rather a distinguished place in esthetics. Nowhere is music so utterly necessary as in cinemas. Plays are set to music, but plays can be given without music. It is a curious thing that some...
...annual award of honorary degrees, like the English New Year's Rank List, is an opportunity to recognize genuine greatness. This year's list is perhaps typical:--the Canadian Prime Minister for his honorable work of government; Professor Grandgent for his outstanding scholarship and talent; Mr. Morgan for his philanthropy, his loyalty to Harvard, his continual encouragement of what is best in the arts; Bishop Slattery for his services to religion;--these and the others each represent one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise...
...ruin, that the prodigy should be taken away from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated by the prosperity and glory that their son brought them. In a year the boy's talent had been worked to collapse. His interpretations became the flattest routine work. Then he fell ill and died. A contrasting case is that of Josef Hoffman, who, beginning as a nine-year-old prodigy of the piano, was allowed to make an initial sensation, and then was taken away from public appearances...
...cleverly executed, on the whole the drawings are amateurish, and some are conspicuously inadequate. The reviewer is plunged into gloom by the dismal title page which introduces him to the subject of scholarships (page 237), and the headings for pages 194 and 198 are clumsily drawn. Not that artistic talent is unusually lacking in the class of 1926, for on the whole the cuts in this book are at least as effective as those of earlier years. The question would seem to be whether any class is likely to be able to muster enough competent artists to make line drawings...