Word: talentedly
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Shaping the Age. Though much of his own attention was concentrated on the countinghouse, Ochs also had a talent for filling his editorial offices with some of the legendary greats of journalism. From 1904 to 1932, Ochs's news columns were controlled by Managing Editor Carr Van Anda, the sort of man who could decide for himself that Britain's great new liner Titanic was not as unsinkable as all the proud publicity claimed. While other editors doubted the authenticity of the first SOS, Van Anda concluded that Titanic was indeed sinking. He deployed his staff...
Webster is still not terribly strong, but Sister Jacqueline's talent for attracting top scholars is pushing it that way. Troubled that most elementary teachers get too much training in method and too little in subject content, she set up a new series of courses to turn out specialists in mathematics and French. She asked Robert B. Davis, professor of mathematics at Syracuse University, to direct her math project at precisely the same time that Physicist Zacharias was trying to lure Davis to M.I.T. Sister Jacqueline won, and Davis goes to Webster College every other week on a flying...
...exponent of esthetic theory, a spokesman for the avant-garde who can nevertheless write in praise of an idyllic past. The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living...
When Houston asked him to put on a show of local talent, he said it would be too parochial. Instead, he proposed and put on a show of 83 works selected from 889 entries gathered from the Southwest-which he decreed to be bordered roughly by the Mississippi River on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. He has acquired art of quality, whether it be a torso from ancient Greece, The Walking Man by Rodin, a Calder stabile, or a 23-ft.-long carved crocodile from New Guinea. And he sometimes exhibits things just to keep Houston...
Whatever the success of its larger aim, the Plan did succeed in sending new talent into the Graduate School of Education. Faculty committees in the participating colleges provided a recruiting and screening agency for the M.A.T. program, and by 1956 the percentage of students from the 29 colleges enrolled at the Ed School had jumped to 43 per cent from 14 per cent...