Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunned! The cover story on Johnny Carson [May 19] was not up to TIME's "putdown profiles." It was quite objective. It is nice to know that Carson "packs a tight suitcase." It takes talent to come across so warmly on TV and still remain a private person who doesn't succumb to pleas to "tell all" about his life...
...Nancy Sinatra-the "Mini Mata Hari" [May 5]: No voice, no talent, not attractive, a college dropout, already divorced, but in her favor an illustrious Hollywood name. And you have the nerve to tell us that "she can claim to have made it on her own." Come off it, TIME. Had she been born Nancy Smith or Nancy Sumatra, she'd be working at Woolworth...
James Purdy has achieved a considerable literary reputation for his precisely chiseled prose style and gallows humor (Malcolm, The Nephew, 63: Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once...
Edward Dodd '30 met Sione on an anthropological expedition to Tonga. He realized the young rugby star's intellectual talent and sponsored Sione's way through the Putney School in Putney, Vermont...
...intrinsic value for nonacademic readers. Hemingway told good yarns. His fishing and hunting stories made sea and forest seem God's heaven. And he had wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...