Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shillitoe, 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...
...superthatch Beatle-size wigs are being sold by the hundreds of dozens. But part of the Beatles peculiar charm is that they view it all with bemused detachment. If they are asked why they think they qualify as, well, four Rockmaninoffs, they disarmingly concede that they have no real talent...
...resident chorus, and a budget that might be mistaken for lunch money at the Met, Sarah Caldwell, 38, is gaining a professional reputation as the best opera director in the U.S. Her company can give only one performance each of five productions this season, but her ardor and talent are so deep that everything she does is memorable. Her Lulu last month was a musical triumph for Bos ton, but / Puritani may have been the chef-d'oeuvre of her career...
...actual themes that emerge from the book--the blatant commercialism of Broadway, the struggles of the unknown author--are not new. They are not freshly handled. And the hero, finally, is paranoiac. It is difficult to be sympathetic toward his talent when his naivete, his obnoxiousness, and his persecution complex stand out so strikingly. In sum, The Fanatic is a novel best described as poorly conceived, repetitive, and over-whelmingly dull...
...that the ever-rising costs of a Harvard education are forcing many students who would otherwise work in volunteer capacities to sell for pay at the HSA. But it is also possible that the HSA is luring talent from other organizations unnecessarily. The purpose of the HSA should be to help needy students, not to provide opportunities to get rich at college. The business of Harvard is not business; it is education. Critics of the HSA have felt that the Administration, in its eagerness to build HSA, has forgotten to measure the influence and effect of a protected, wage-paying...