Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. The anguished chronicle of a young writer's discovery that his talent was not enough to do justice to a high vision of the world...
...what responsibility countless small German citizens might personally bear for it was never adequately faced and exorcised -not even in literature. With the new prosperity, popular writers switched, like their counterparts everywhere else in the world, to sex and success. Germany, it seemed, could find neither the literary talent nor the inclination to come to grips with the most, overwhelming experience in its history...
Grass, a 35-year-old ex-tombstone carver, is probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war. In The Tin Drum, he employs every technique from realism to surrealism, every tone from a whisper to a howl. The gaudiest gimmick in his literary bag of tricks, however, is a character named Oskar Matzerath. For Oskar is that wildly distorted mirror which, held up to a wildly deformed reality, gives back a recognizable likeness...
...total of $600 for supplying the names of all the U.S. service chiefs at Fontainebleau, a list of the petroleum products used at the depot, and information on U.S. gas masks. By July 1960, the Russians were so delighted with his work that they suggested he develop his talent at an espionage school in the Soviet Union; he cannily refused...
Elbows & Springs. Most topflight college teams rely primarily on the all-round wizardry of one gifted player. Kentucky has its Cotton Nash, Duke has Art Heyman, and pre-Jucker Cincinnati had Robertson. This year's Bearcat squad has no one player whose talent towers over the rest; instead, it is a well-coordinated collection of specialists. Center George Wilson is a 6-ft. 8-in. giraffe from Chicago who turned down 89 other college offers to go to Cincinnati; his job is to control the backboards, and his sharp elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds...