Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plucks out the tune while the thumb plunks out a moving bass. Country music in those days offered slim pickings to a newcomer, and Watson earned his first pay as lead guitarist in a local pop band. But in 1960, he was suddenly picked out of the band by Talent Scout Ralph Rinzler, packed off in a station wagon loaded with musicians and instruments, and trundled around the country. In 1962 he was rushed in as replacement at Los Angeles' prestigious folk singers' mecca, Ash Grove, and has been moving up ever since...
...Jersey's long-neglected, almost nonexistent system of public higher education acquired a needed talent last week when Ralph A. Dungan, White House adviser in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was sworn in as the state's first chancellor of higher education. His urgent task will be to transform six state colleges devoted mainly to teacher training into high-quality liberal-arts colleges in an effort to stem New Jersey's exodus of college students to other states...
While the unflappable and genial Dungan, 44, is ideally suited to the challenge of luring professorial talent into New Jersey, he will have to use all of his skills in salesmanship. The state has a deserved reputation for penny-pinching in running its colleges and its lone public university, Rutgers. It recently ranked 46th among the states in per capita support of higher education. The situation was so bad that a committee headed by Princeton President Robert F. Goheen last year urged a complete reorganization of the system. Pushed by Governor Richard Hughes, the New Jersey legislature enacted reforms, took...
...demand logical thinking (though not necessarily mathematical background) and painstaking attention to detail-yet defy solution by any standard or scientifically disciplined approach. "Some call it an art and some call it black magic," says A. W. Carroll, RCA's manager of systems programming. Whatever it is, the talent is scarce enough that many companies show great tolerance for "wild ducks." "I overcame my prejudice against working for IBM," says full-bearded Manhattan Computer Expert Larry Josephson, 28, "when I was interviewed by a man dressed in a musty old suit and tennis shoes. We just talked about drinking...
...small-town gas station, worships his Chevy and a hard-hearted local girl. One day he discovers a unique inner resource: he can hang by his hands for two, three, four minutes at a stretch. A local gambler begins to make book on him, but "Hanger" sees his talent only as a means for buying new and shiny presents for his two loves. In the end, he loses the girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with a fine ear for adolescent patois. Author Matthews, 42, who teaches...