Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troupe has never known the security of a permanent home. They have to squeeze in performances at the opera house between operas or at downtown theaters between touring shows. "San Francisco is simply not a red-hot ballet city," explains Christensen. Still, fueled by a steady stream of talent from the first-rate San Francisco Ballet School, operated by Christensen's brother Harold, the company has maintained an enviable standard of vitality and exuberance...
...rejected the job of U.S. Solicitor General in 1932 (the same year he turned down a judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin...
Important Irrelevancies. But the court does welcome artful amid and occasionally solicits Government briefs that truly ventilate legal issues. If the main parties lack legal talent, the court's ultimate opinion may even sound remarkably like the amicus brief-a type of plagiarism that amicus groups prize and proudly report to their members. Most often, amid do the valuable chore of arguing novel or shaky points that litigants either dare not or do not think to embrace. Even when they are initially rejected, such arguments are thus recorded and may later bear fruit. In 1950, for example, the N.A.A.C.P...
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr sacrifices some laughs in treating two serious themes: the capacity to love and the squandering of talent. Still, wit and insight inform this tale of an English poet on an alcoholic sabbatical in New York...
...show was Kelly, based on a legendary jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and several would-be producers, looking before they leaped, had earlier dropped their options. Undeterred by the fears of other angels, Susskind and his Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. rushed in, somehow found $350,000 lying around. To round out the nut, they talked Columbia Records into ponying up $50,000 and got the remaining $250,000 from Producer-Plunger Joseph E. Levine...