Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. A hypocrite's hypocrite of a TV writer-producer, roguishly played by Robert Preston, presides over the decline and fall of practically everybody whose talent he can use and abuse...
Three years ago a wave of athletic talent hit the North-eastern University campus; now Husky teams are starting to show the results. Their football team went undefeated, the hockey team almost won an invitation to the ECAC tournament, and this spring's baseball team looks about as good...
...beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
That, of course, forms the plot of Funny Girl, how sheer grit is polished into great talent and the price that is paid for that pearl of success. This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than...
Cheever was an obviously gifted child. His mother took him to Ibsen plays in Boston, and he got nosebleeds out of sheer excitement. He was chubby then and no athlete, but he early discovered his talent for storytelling, and used to gather a crowd of his contemporaries around him on the family veranda on a summer afternoon while he held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest...