Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, he says, "my home is hotel rooms." He is a man without a country, without an orchestra, without a recording contract. All he has instead is his talent and an exalted vision. He says: "I have never compromised...
...Talent & Work. San Francisco's Levi Strauss & Co., a family-owned firm that has grown from work pants to general men's sportswear, has nearly tripled its size under the aggressive direction of Walter A. Haas Jr., 49, who took over his father's old job in 1958. In the same year, Edward B. Rust, 46, became president of State Farm Mutual Insurance when Father Adlai stepped up to chairman; under Edward, the nation's largest automobile insurance firm has increased its policyholders from 5,500,000 to 8,500,000, raised its premium income...
Though Ralph Lazarus, 51, was assured a job with Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores because he was the fourth generation of what Cincinnatians call "the Lazari," it was talent and hard work that made him rise to the presidency, where he is coequal with Father Fred Jr., 80, Federated's chairman. Ralph now does most of the traveling, makes most of the decisions, and is chiefly responsible for the first $1 billion sales year in Federated's history. Since his father died in 1959, Motorola Chairman Robert W. Galvin, 42, has increased sales 43%, introduced such profitable lines...
...pupil, Beatrice Mathews showed a comic talent superior even to Montoya's. Seated next to the professor, casual and happy, she presented a picture of slightly stupid innocence. As her torture increased so did the variety of her facial and bodily expressions of boredom, pain and outrage. Her delivery, like Montoya's, was nuanced and fluent. This is especially important in performing Ionesco, since most of the playwright's humor is based on his genius for distorting or exaggerating the phrases and rhymes of everyday conversation...
From somewhere, the Gen Ed Committee must dredge up a large number of new lower-level courses in the next few years. And unless the Dean proves a most skillful talent-seeker, it seems all but certain that he will have to turn for these new courses to new new fields--in particular, to the behavioral sciences and to the non-verbal arts within the Humanities. The men within the classical fields, willing and able to teach Gen Ed courses, do not seem to be there. Unless the new debates have provided an impetus that will provoke new courses from...