Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta housewife: "I think people are thoroughly tired of the war. I think that some middle-class whites are just beginning to realize the depth of poverty in this country. Older people see the emptiness, the burden of the war. Younger people see it as a great waste of talent and life. Everybody knows that there is no answer now to the Viet Nam war, but we've got to let Nixon know...
...such a ruler was frequently revered as a father figure with magical capacities. Peasants in Turkey, for example, believed that Dictator Kemal Ataturk was impervious to bullets. Even in relatively sophisticated societies, there is a deep-rooted need for magic. The fact that the magician may not really have talent or wisdom is less important than the popular belief that...
...minute violence and conflict, the constant intellectual bombardment and diversity that can exist only in a great city. The prime fallacy behind regional theater is the notion that architecture induces art, that bricks breed genius. After more than a decade of assiduously erecting culture structures, not a single sizable talent has emerged from the regional theater. Far from assembling able dedicated ensemble companies, the regional theater has merely spawned a theatrical bureaucracy of so-so actors and so-so directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident...
Frustrated Talent. The recruiting of the generals and colonels coincides with a basic change in the government's economic thinking. Israel's Zionist founders scorned commerce and were more interested in agriculture and socialist ideology than in industry. Thus the Jewish talent for business was late to bloom in Israel. Civilian managers often lacked the skills to run modern industrial corporations or to deal with foreign investors on anything like equal terms. Lately, the government has concluded that Israel's future security depends almost as much on a strong economy as on a tough army. Last year...
Individual talent once more carried the Crimson through the contest as Solomon Gomez and Pete Bogovich scored the Crimson tallies...