Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...integrated colleges because of the 20-year effort of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. And the National Achievement Scholarship Program, funded by the Ford Foundation under the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, has uncovered and financed several thousand students in the past few years. Without the talent search of NSSFNS and NASP, the colleges would probably have continued in the various states of complacency still characteristic of the majority of our institutions of higher learning...
...shooting began-Coburn complained that he would feel uncomfortable making movie love to such a young thing, so the studio decided to drop Romina for someone a little older. Linda telephoned Evans a dozen times a day, demanding explanations and offering script revisions that would accommodate Romina's talent for projecting "pure love through poetry." Asked if her budding starlet might take some acting lessons, Mommy exclaimed: "Are you crazy? Do you want to spoil that gift...
...United show is a two-hour, five-night-a-week club crawl of Vegas, with Comic Bill Dana introducing the pretaped acts. Dana's putative advantage over the competition is that there is more top cabaret talent in Vegas in a week than Carson's New York or Bishop's Los Angeles sees in a month. Trouble is that about half of Dana's ten-odd nightly guests are lounge (or second-string) acts rather than the featured stars...
...produce a book so large in vision, so perfect in execution, that the entire fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded by all his partisans; whether the bad boy of American letters has grown enough in the last twenty years to win all the marbles is another issue. But Mailer is not the sort...
...course, hard on Harvard players, coaches, and fans to lose two athletes of such immense talent. But if the Ivy Leaguer in the Tigers' second infield in this weekend's practice sessions is any indication of things to come, the long-range reward for Harvard fans could be very great indeed...