Word: talentedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JUBB, by Keith Waterhouse. Through the weird alchemy of talent and restraint, British Novelist Waterhouse (Billy Liar) turns the story of a lonely voyeur into a novel with both compassion and comedy...
...student, he was felled by a seven-month bout with rheumatic fever as he entered high school, began to study even harder when he was forced to give up sports. To let off some of his competitive energy, he turned to the debating team, later perfected that talent with Dale Carnegie, is today an articulate public speaker...
...talent was evident at 22 in his abrupt, progressive vision of the orchestra at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. In his private art he experimented with new ways of seeing; he tried his friend Monet's impressionism, exhausted the old masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother...
...dramatic death left him a reputation as a revolutionary-which he was not-and gave rise to a Lorca cult that did him no service by drawing attention away from his works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista...
With all the talent available to it, with all the money so obviously lavished upon it, the Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival should have given us a far better Julius Ceasar than the one that opened at the Loeb last night...