Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems. Today the entire Northeastern seabord shares the same crises--urban blight, overcongestion, rising crime rates, and a lack of adequate transportation. The problems of Boston and Washington differ only in size and complexity not in kind. New York, never a bastion of provincialism, should welcome the best talent available, and Robert Kennedy in his role of a proponent for a mass transportation bill and for new approaches to the attack on poverty showed a fundamental understanding a megalopolis. Homegrown mediocrity is not substitute for imported excellence...
What sort of team do the Lions have? According to the Columbia Spectator, Coach Joe Molder feels "the team's success will depend almost exclusively on how much, and how fast the sophomores learn to play as a team with the returning lettermen. This team has much more talent than last season but will face the challenge of inexperience...
Harvard should win in a romp this afternoon. In its tuneups for the League campaign, the Crimson shellacked Tufts and Boston University, and then was tied 3-3 Wednesday by M.I.T. Harvard did not look very impressive in the contest with Tech, but nonetheless the team has too much talent for the Lions to handle today...
Sleepless Night. The two old friends, both early prodigies, are widely different in their approach to music. Heifetz, blessed with the most superb natural dexterity that any violinist ever had, is almost negligently casual about his talent; at his first appearance as a soloist with a symphony at the age of eight, he fell asleep in a chair while waiting to go on. With success he acquired a taste for high life and a distaste for practice. It never seemed to make any difference in his playing. After one hectic binge, he went on to a performance in London...
...Afternoon to The Manchurian Candidate. Now he's an employee of a department store whose career depends on his ability to persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely, he convinces a woman that she should keep a teakettle because of its unique talent for whistling Beethoven's Fifth. In order to snow a snob, he poses as one Carter Phelps-Phipps of the Phelps-Phippses of Boston. "Strange, I don't recall your name in the Social Register," says the snob. "We have an unlisted page," explains Phelps-Phipps...