Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author, Ladislav Grossman. Mr. Grossman, my childhood friend and schoolmate, wrote the story on the basis of very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly overlooked in this case...
...American institutions that have not changed since 1934, save for the fact that the Hour was trimmed to 30 minutes and Mack compassionately eliminated the gong that Major Bowes used as a hook. In an average week, 450 people are auditioned by Mack's nationwide talent scouts, but only nine appear in the two-minute performances. Mack, 62, is so well known that when he walks down the street, would-be artists often start dancing or singing for him. He keeps his home address in New York's Westchester County a secret for fear that...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy of truth and consequences on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is talent on both sides of the family...
Kalem is TIME's theater critic, but since Broadway is currently in its summer doldrums, he is lending his talent to other sections (he was responsible for the recent Essay on the state of the modern theater). His career has been varied and productive. He was born in Maiden, Mass., of Greek parents from Asia Minor, and his first language was Greek. He majored in sociology at Harvard ('42, cum laude) and planned to go to Harvard Law School, but World War II interfered. After 3½ years as an infantryman, mostly in the Pacific (five campaigns, Bronze...
Aiming for bold, big-screen entertainment, Director Sydney Pollack emphasizes rowdy period flavor and gives his cast leeway for showy performances. The movie as a whole is too bright and vulgar to be dull, but expensive talent has been squandered on every chore except the crucial one of keeping a small, evanescent tragedy in focus...