Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally escaping to lean wearily, ecstatically, on one another saying, "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" National Student Film Award Winner Eric Camiel, 23, evokes the sympathy most Now People feel for the underdog in his Riff '65, a deadpan portrait of a 15-year-old Manhattan dweller with artistic talent who loses his fingers under a subway train. "I can take all they can dish out," insists Riff...
Both sensitive and sophisticated, it epitomizes more than any previous generation the definition of talent by Harvard Dropout Henry James as "the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be." Yet it is by no means a faceless generation...
Boumediene insists that Algeria can solve its problems alone. "Algeria has no need for lessons from abroad," he says, "and her children have no need of foreign counselors to tell them how to construct the new society." Yet foreign counselors are everywhere. With its own talent draining away to Europe, Algeria counts on 11,000 French technicians to run the country's railroads, waterworks and powerhouses. Most of the hospitals and clinics are manned by doctors from the U.S., France and the Communist bloc. Some 1,500 Russians are advising the army...
...something else-in Hollywood, but not with it. Unencumbered by the cotton-candy fantasy life in which most stars invariably shroud themselves, she has stayed resolutely honest and unspoiled. She is an actress, as Librettist Alan Jay Lerner once remarked, who achieved stardom "with nothing to offer but talent, industry and an uncorrupted heart...
...back of his hand they sometimes got. When General "Hap" Arnold complained that the Air Force was not getting the large share of credit it claimed, Marshall told him pretty sharply to pipe down. Nor was he the man to ease the jolt when it came to jumping talent over seniority, as when Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower was promoted over numberless brigadiers. He kept a "little Black Book" for duds, and stars would never fall on those listed therein...