Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once in business, a new nation must establish embassies around the globe and send a mission to the U.N.-tasks that frequently exhaust both their finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy...
Most Diversionary Direction: to Russell Rouse, who apparently decided that hopeless dialogue can ring funny when played as high tragedy. "Do you bleed? Do you cry?" moans trampled Talent Scout Eleanor Parker. "I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slide a lid on and walk away!" she adds. The less raunchy lines are disposed of in rounds of verbal pingpong. Let Boyd say "My head is splitting" (ping) and Wife Elke Sommer is sure to answer "So is our marriage" (pong). Milton Berle, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Peter Lawford and Edie Adams all prove expert...
...Zealand author, a teacher whose theories in practice (TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) have made her a legend in education, does not have a flashy literary genius. But she possesses talent enough to sustain genius of another order-the power to see into a child's mind and find there the river of time, in which, as they say in the clearing, only the "sillies" get drowned...
...Yale is simply too much. The Bull-dogs have fantastic depth and talent in every event but the dive. In addition, they have several stars, notably Olympians Don Schollander and Bill Mettler, who are almost certain winners in any event they choose to swim. True, the Blue lost at West Point 48-47, but that was before Schollander and Mettler became eligible for varsity competition...
...quality of TV comedy leaves something to be desired, the quantity of written humor is pitifully small; most writers with a comic talent have been lured by the wide exposure and high pay of TV. No replacements have been found for such essayists as Benchley, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis. Frank Sullivan. There is no longer a Thurber, expressing in word and picture the uneasiness of modern life and the war between the sexes. "Funny men don't seem to write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape...