Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henze's early fascination with twelve-tone technique marked him a decadent in Nazi Germany, and his operatic works since then have split his audience into two camps-the admiring and the appalled-with the critics generally on his side. He has a talent for finding high inspiration in avant-garde literature (Allen Ginsberg's Howl inspired his recent Antifone per Orchestra) and for attracting notable collaborators. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman (the librettists of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress) wrote the libretto for his Elegy for Young Lovers, and the collaboration remains among...
...Many a talent has first sprouted in the subsidized soil of the little magazines and lived to proliferate in the world of letters at large. Will it happen to Ivan Gold...
...much really. Me writing a book I mean. It isn't as if I had any talent or something. But what's a girl to do. There I was twenty and pear-shaped and daddy a noble lord. Only not a rich one. Lord and Lady Clanmorris are what my parents really are. Only really they are writers too. Named Bingham like me. They live in London. And I couldn't type or do shorthand very well really. So I started this corny book. All about...
...between a House system designed to force intellectual life on prep school graduates who already have their eyes set on careers and places in society and a system for graduates of public or private schools who have been-propelled to Harvard by their unusual ability and the doctrine that "talent is our most important resource." If the Houses are to be more than the fraternities of the intellectuals, they must now find a way open themselves to the non-academic world. The academic profession is only one of many devoted to use of the mind, but this is hard...
Director Joseph Strick, who showed a talent for visual satire in The Savage Eye, suffers a distinct falling off in this film. His next project, a film from Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, which has a more familiar setting and theme for him, will probably recoup his prestige...