Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Full of Talent." Schulberg has found that the ghetto is "full of talent, full of innate ability," and his charges have already produced enough poetry to consider publishing an anthology to be called Voices of Watts (see box). Star pupil is unquestionably Johnie Scott, 20, who was born in the ward of a women's prison, nonetheless won a scholarship to Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college...
Neither Right nor Left. Some observers feel that as a cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride...
...show. Sol Saks's dialogue bristles amiably from first to last, and when blithe spirits threaten to overflow the tiny three-room flat, Director Charles Walters shuffles words, pranks and players in and around greater Tokyo with a perfectly relaxed air. Hutton, a quizzical comic talent packed into a skyscraper frame, hilariously displays a pained embarrassment over his skill as a wiggly-hipped 30-mile walker, and he passes the test as a farceur by keeping pace with Grant. Samantha nips through her first comedy role with such unexpected verve that she will probably be asked to impersonate plucky...
Lovely War could have come off like talent night at a summer camp or an hour-and-a-half ad for the Women's Strike for Peace. Instead it is grinning barbarism, which, after, all, is what unlovely real wars are like...
...most grueling music contest in the music world: Moscow's Third International Tchaikovsky Competition. Visibly weary after having heard 42 cellists play virtually the same music scores of times, Piatigorsky complained: "It is the obligation of people of art to find some other way to give people of talent some incentive, but it cannot be useful to discourage a hundred merely to encourage...