Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Remarkable Talent. Only partially by coincidence, President Johnson accepted the resignation of Roger Hilsman, 44, who, as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was the State Department official most directly charged with responsibility for Viet Nam policy under both Jack Kennedy and Johnson. A graduate of West Point (Class of '43), a wartime guerrilla fighter with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, an OSS officer in the Far East, holder of a Ph.D. in international politics from Yale, Hilsman had long talked about returning to academic life. He once tried to submit his resignation to Kennedy...
Hilsman did not have the same rapport with Johnson, and he displayed a remarkable talent for getting other U.S. officials mad at him. His aggressive, abrasive personality hindered the teamwork necessary for policy coordination. He liked to give lectures on how to fight counterguerrilla warfare to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor-much to Taylor's disgust. When Hilsman quit, a State Department colleague explained: "It's a two-way deal. Roger wants to go and we-well, let's say we don't mind...
...learning to sing any better. His voice is as flat as it is strong; his timing slips and falters like a water wheel in a drought. He delivers a song clearly, cleanly, warmly, paying great heed to the lyrics, making up in feeling what he lacks in old-fashioned talent...
...checked hats. Off-stage she wears denim slacks, a turtleneck jersey, desert boots, and about three tablespoons of mascara. At work, she consciously seems to be imitating Audrey Hepburn (just as Sandy Dennis, disconcertingly enough, seems to be copying Marlon Brando), but inside this derivative shell a considerable talent seems to be winning in its effort to come...
Setting up an axiom for herself, she decided never to stay at home and be depressed about not working. Instead she would go to the vast Manhattan offices of the M.C.A. talent agency and be depressed there. "I would put on my most Villagey clothes-and cry loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked...