Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equated to scholarship, and on the least ambiguous measure of it, grades, forces many undergraduate electors to play a curious game during elections. Before and after the election meeting, and during the break in discussions, they admit how arbitrary, capricious, and generally insignificant grades are as measures of interest, talent, and achievement in most of the courses they have taken. Yet when they enter the conference room on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center, they are faced with grade averages calculated to five digits, and they must pretend that an A instead of an A- in this course or that...
FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project...
...appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted by glory and travail, had welcomed him as Louis the Desired...
Ringling Bros.' hairborne Rapunzel, Chrystine Holt, 21, is the new sensation of the 1964 circus. She came by her talent somewhat naturally. Her father juggles while he hangs by his teeth...
While hailing the miniaturizing ability of PCMI, the company's scientists think it has another talent that is even more important. Records made by ultraviolet light are easily correctable. When the recording operator or one of his machines makes an inevitable mistake, the unwanted page can be erased by one quick flash of yellow light. A new page can be printed by ultraviolet in the same place. The observer can watch both erasure and printing in green light, which does not affect the sensitive...