Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostesses. There are dozens of them, ranging from the First Lady down to the newest Texas millionairess, who figures all she needs to succeed is a wad of money and a big house, just like Dolly Harrison in Advise and Consent. But on the New Frontier, where talent and power are the most negotiable currency, the moneyed matrons are out and the "official" hostesses-the wives of ambassadors and Administration officials-are in. Short of a summons to dinner at the White House, few invitations are treasured as highly as those to 2221 Kalorama Road, N.W., site of the grey...
...Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot live without an anvil to hammer...
...lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive, flaringly emotional reaches of the Jewish temperament-sometimes leads him astray, causing him to inject into a purely naturalistic story the stylized emotional patterns of the Jewish folk tale, told and retold through generations of racial experience...
Radcliffe has also joined with other Ivy League schools for the past two years in a "talent search" in high schools throughout the South, she said. Charles E. McCarthy, Jr., assistant admissions director at Yale, has traveled extensively in the South every year, encouraging qualified students who would benefit from the experience to apply to New England schools...
...established the Committee's "university chair." Mahoney may be able to start a similar precedent on the Council, but even if he does not, he should serve as a highly valuable liaison between Cambridge and the universities. Harvard and M.I.T. have much to offer Cambridge in the way of talent and theoretical knowledge, and the City can do much to aid the universities in matters concerning revenues and land...