Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feast as a "frightening" person who on one occasion said things to Stein that were "too bad to hear"; Alice cordially hated him in return. Actually, as Thornton Wilder tells it, "Alice was merely the dragon protecting the treasure." She had enough intuition to recognize Gertrude Stein's talent and made a life work out of nourishing it. She was not just a factotum for Gertrude. She frequently made changes in Stein's writings, and her brevity and staccato conversation were an important counterweight to Stein's discursive, convoluted style...
...patsies of the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference, and at the gate, where they have been losing the battle to the A.F.L. All last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister's son who is married, a father, neither drinks nor smokes and makes speeches...
...compared with 43% in the U.S. A strong 31% of the Japanese ranked in the upper tenth percentile, compared with only 4% of the Americans. The top tenth, claim the researchers, is "a very critical index, since it is likely to be the source of national mathematics and science talent." Students in their last year of secondary school also were tested: the U.S. finished at the very bottom, while Japan was near...
...Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier. Lady Redgrave, who plays as Rachel Kempson, is accounted a superb supporting actress. And over the last year a new generation of Redgraves, who might well be known as "Michael's bloody marvels," has spangled the marquees with a retina-rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait of a political noddy. Lynn, 24, hit the top with a gloriously vulgar clang in a British film called...
...Lynn cunningly combined emotional empathy and ironical detachment. Says Sidney Lumet, who directed The Dead'y Affair, in which Lynn played a small role: "She can editorialize on a character without interrupting her portrayal of it." Acuity and control of this order, rare in one so young, intimate a talent for the highest comedy?the kind of loving laughter that hurts only what it heals...