Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villagers. Agents are trained to sell "life insurance for living" with policies that pay for retirement or for the marriage of a daughter as well as death benefits. The company explains the value of insurance with short feature films, primarily for rural audiences, that have simple plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible, in signs, posters, newspaper ads and leaflets, appears the company's symbol: a pair of hands shielding the flame of a peasant oil lamp...
...program may also lead, purely incidentally, to an even greater revolution in undergraduate instruction. Instructors and Assistant Professors now complain that the energy and talent they devote to teaching undergraduates do nothing to advance them professionally. Under the new system, teaching ability will influence professional advancement at two important stages. The History Department will choose the 25 fellowship holders on the basis not only of scholarship, but also of recommendations which will include an estimate of teaching ability. And the Department's recommendations of Ph.D.'s for academic positions will consider candidates' performances during their teaching years. Perhaps...
...Wasted Talent. Only 8% of young Britons get higher education, compared with 25% in the U.S., and of that number about half attend technical and teacher colleges that give no university degrees-a coveted badge of social distinction. In 1962, says Sir Eric Ashby, master of Clare College, Cambridge, "we selected about 33,000 young people to go to universities out of an age group of some 700,000. This represents only a fraction of the pool of high ability in Britain...
Masters had a keen eye for the eccentric and the cantankerous, the wistful dreamer and the self-pitying failure. He tried to give them tragic dignity, but his talent rarely carried him beyond the ironic cynicism that is merely unearned despair...
Massachusetts and the Boston area in particular seems to have provided a significant share of the talent of the first two units. Seven of the first eleven and four of the second unit are local boys...