Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coveted acquaintances, versatile Stephen Ward held out the key to an exotic demimonde of teen-age trollops and rarefied sexual rites that seemed more in keeping with Lautrec's Montmartre than tidy Thamesside. The second son of a country clergyman, he had a lifelong talent for spotting, seducing and sophisticating pliable provincial lasses. "I suppose," said he, "that I have been one of the most successful men with girls in London since the war." He used this gift unremittingly for his friends, who rewarded him with a social acceptance that meant far more to him than the financial proceeds...
Magnetized Talents. Dedicated musicianship of Dunn's caliber attracts talent like a magnet. The warm contralto of the Metropolitan Opera's Lili Chookasian, the glowing mezzo-soprano of Negro Betty Allen, and the responsive, impeccable bowing of Dunn's small string sections all brightened last week's performance of Britten's Rape of Lucretia. Such artists have taught critics and audiences alike that whatever Thomas Dunn tackles musically will be worth doing and done memorably well...
...politician, and he sought his friends not among the worthy pedants of social reform in the "slouching, sluggish" Labor Party leadership but among artists like Jacob Epstein, writers like H. G. Wells, or even with an aristocrat turned columnist like Lord Castlerosse. Bevan behaved as if his own talent and exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire for five minutes." This is the tone of the bohemian...
Suddenly the desks of casting directors seem awash with the names of celebrities' kids bent on making their own names. Some of them have genuine talent, some are riding on a parental reputation built 30 years ago. But because of who their mothers or daddies were, all of them get a hearing-and some may even be heard from. Among the more promising...
This remarkable turnabout in U.S. income patterns is largely the result of the postwar growth of large corporations and their intense competition for talent. Increasingly, highly trained students getting out of college find more of what they want-in terms of interest, challenge and salary-in the corporation, pass up any opportunities to strike out on their...