Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOFT SKIN. The emotional trigonometry of a love triangle occupied by an aging intellectual, his wife, and a pretty airline stewardess is worked out with fine Gallic elegance by Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows), who conquers triteness with pure talent...
Sharing the Miracle. One of the most ambitious imitators is West Germany. Prodded by their allies, who wanted them to share some of the fruits of the vaunted economic miracle with underdeveloped lands, the Germans last year launched what they called, with a typical talent for uninspiring nomenclature, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (German Development Service). Applications poured in by the thousands, and 78 volunteers have already completed the intensive twelve-week training course. They are now training workers at an auto plant in Libya, teaching at trade schools in Afghanistan and working with farmers in India. Last week 23 German volunteers flew...
Adams will feature local talent, the Vagabonds, and will charge $2.00. Both dances go from 8 p.m. to midnight...
...Imitates Art. Thus did Snow, 59, sometime physicist, Cambridge don, civil servant, business executive and portrayer-in-fiction of Britain's rulers, begin a new career: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Technology in Wilson's new government, which has raided labs and lecture halls for academic talent to fill key posts in education, defense, science, economics...
Considering the variety of talent it employs, the New Republic maintains a strikingly consistent and distinct writing style. Searching for a description of it brings to mind only contradictory accolades: authoritative and relaxed, facile and profound. The paradigm for the style is TRB's elegantly folksy column, which invariably eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight...