Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this to say: Nostalgia is perilous, and the buried past must be only cautiously unearthed. She says it by bringing together three women in their sixties who were close childhood friends. As little girls, they had shared a common experience; as old women, they demonstrate a common, time-sharpened talent for cattiness and cruelty...
...Satterthwaite, Toby Symington, and John Frazier, probably poses the biggest threat to the Crimson's supremacy, but an Army team sparked by the brothers Oehrlein--Al and Richie--might beat out the Tigers for second. Tom Poor is probably the tournament's second-best player, but Amherst has little talent backing...
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shilli-toe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...
...most seasoned teachers to the school districts with the most problems. Now, he complains, experienced instructors are too eager "to get out of the area, to get something easier." Lowe's most radical recommendation is that teachers be periodically rotated among different culturally-defined areas, to spread teaching talent and experience more evenly over the city. Low also advocates more conventional education reforms, smaller classes, modern methods like machine-teaching, more specialized individual care, and elimination of automatic promotions...
...with the tightly drawn plot of "A Common Mistake." The story meanders from a description of a river, to a poker game, to a quarrel between two men over money, to violence over a pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through...