Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Depressing Deceiver. What emerges from their findings, conclude Authors Berelson and Steiner, is a dour view of Western man-not the Greek lover of reason, the Christian believer in redemption, or the Renaissance liberator of human power, but a depressing creature with a vast talent for distorting reality because of psychological needs. "Behavioral-science man" thinks what fits his wishes, says what pleases his peers, avoids conflict and protects his neuroses. He votes with his friends, wants what he has to work for, and thinks that his group or organization ranks higher than it does. If threatened with disillusionment...
...million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny, it had to decide on liability, and on that question the musicians were no help...
Beyond the mechanical problems of selection comes the intent of the prize. Should it be to crown a style and seem to urge young artists to march to the easel and start painting like Davis or Giacometti? Or does it encourage new talent to be different-for the sake of being different...
...East Side, West Side, which, if often nothing else, is a showcase for Actor George C. Scott's considerable talent, will disappear. Some critics cried that "serious drama" was vanishing from TV. Series drama, maybe; but well-written plays have always been tantalizingly rare on TV. CBS-TV President James Aubrey has also axed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, The Garry Moore Show, The New Phil Silvers Show, old Jack Benny, and Danny Thomas (who, like Benny, will bob back on NBC). Judy Garland "resigned" with a moving letter. Meanwhile, it was announced that Lucille...
This is a pity, because here is a genuine talent...