Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea was not without its critics. As one agency executive puts it. "They laughed when we sat down at the world to play . . ." And like the famed advertising slogan about the man who surprised one and all with his new-found talent at the piano, some of the Peace Corps' most vocal critics became avid boosters...
...Burns, because of the internal checks and balances of the executive branch's decision-making processes and "the convergence of the long ambivalent American ideology in the modern doctrines of freedom and equality." The developments of the twentieth century have made the Presidency not only an attraction for political talent, but also the magnificent defender of personal civil liberties and the only true representative of national popular opinion...
Tireless Rounds. There was chamber music with some of the "local talent" like Heifetz and Piatigorsky. Once, the story goes, Albert Einstein began to play a violin and piano sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...
...patriarch, Robert ("Bobby") Lehman, spare and spry at 73, controls the major part of the firm's capital, operates out of a jewel-box-sized office with just enough wall space for six small paintings from his $100 million private collection.* Though he concentrates on picking promising youthful talent, Lehman's outstanding recent personnel acquisition is General Lucius Clay, 68, who joined the firm after he reached the mandatory retirement age as chairman of Continental Can Co. three years ago. The two leading senior partners besides Lehman and Clay: Monroe Gutman, 80, a professorial market analyst who runs...
...ghetto for hours in hopes that it would cool off. Similarly, in an overlong section on the failings of U.S. policy in Africa, he mentions "the recent visit" of Red China's Mao Tse-tung, though Mao has never been near the place. But Farmer's talent, after all, lies in leading, not writing...