Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The witty and urbane talent of the tunemaster is shown to full advantage in this sprightly revue of his lesser-known songs...
...girls are not blood relatives,* but in talent they are siblings. Neither has appeared in a Broadway musical before; yet both stars are so luminous that they have brightened second-rate material and made promising hits out of what might easily have been flops. But there the resemblance ends. Barbara Harris, at 30, is starring for the first time on Broadway; Julie Harris, at 39, is a veteran of more than a dozen big-league shows...
...shrilly proclaims that young writers exist in the world, admits they don't go to Harvard, and wishes they would get in touch with the Advocate. The editors complain that: (1) potential contributors would rather shoot for big money from national magazines than write for local audiences, and (2) talent, like nature, can't be forced -- no one can squeeze pieces out of writers when they're doing things like picketing the White House...
...editors protest too much. Their latest offering is not an embarrassment. This time there are no gimmicks, no reprints of the adolescent Wallace Stevens. And quite a bit of talent has returned from the recent past. At least people like Dawson and Meyers wail their angst tolerably well...
Clearly, verse was not Faulkner's form; but talent will out. Here and there beneath these slight conventional measures, the primeval force that fills the novels flexes disturbingly, like an anaconda in organdy...