Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20] brought his warm personality and talent into focus. When I began work at Carnegie Corporation in 1963, he was its president, and from that time I have considered it a privilege to know him. The Great Society has an excellent chance of realization if only because Mr. Gardner is one of its patrons...
...these may have brought him more bad luck than good; when the law of averages straightened out, he fell easy prey to frustration, confusion and bitterness. He didn't have the equipment, and that only whetted his ambition further. What he did have was a fast spiel, a talent for flattering the real movers and shakers with grandiose ideas, and an astonishing gift for getting people to part with their money. "People do not understand me," he once said. "They reproach me for announcing six films for a year and then making only one in four years...
...retired to Aberdeen, her birthplace, and after giving away her piano and her collection of scores, never sang again, "not even to myself." She spent her last years as a kind of talent scout, holding auditions in her studio, admonishing young hopefuls to "stop studying and start singing." Though she helped the careers of dozens of singers, including Soprano Grace Moore, she sadly remarked a few years ago that she "had not found another Mary Garden." Nor has anyone else...
...least one major market in which the returns to tight and complex organization are large enough to support a dominant monopoly firm or cartel. Not all businesses lend themselves to centralized organization; some do, and these may provide the nucleus of well-financed entrepreneurship and the extension of organizational talent into other businesses that would not, alone, support or give rise to an organized monopoly or cartel...
...army would only waste their talent, they argue, by assigning them to jobs fit for high school drop-outs. "If they really could use some of this intelligence," says one college student, "then it might make sense to take the more privileged people, but right now they misallocate most of their talented draftees, or send them off to get shot...