Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that kind of trained talent, Lombardi can go easy on the extra razzle-dazzle. His game is disconcertingly simple. Or so it appears. ''We always hit them at their strongest point." he says. "We attack their best men in an effort to break their morale. If you can bring down their best men, it's all over." Opponents respect the tactic. On defense, explains Philadelphia Linebacker Chuck Bednarik. "the Packers just hand you the ball and say. 'Here it is, see what you can do with it.' " On offense, says Pittsburgh Quarterback Bobby Layne...
...work of major pretensions receive a better performance than it deserves. But Friday evening, in their joint Christmas concert, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra, with nine soloists, gave the North American premiere of a work that did not merit the talent and effort they expended on it. As the evening passed, Frank Martin's La Mystere de la Nativite, though occasionally--rarely--illuminated by flashes of beauty, unrolled as a tedious exercise in stylistic combinations and permutations...
...contributions. He listened to a total of 200 young instrumentalists in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, hired the outstanding performers and put the rest on a waiting list. To fill out the orchestra with more experienced players, Stokowski consulted what is probably the most extensive talent file in all music: his own loose-leaf notebook in which he has evaluated every instrumentalist and singer who has ever performed with him-about 1,700 of them...
...Goldsmith, though he was undoubtedly right in his opinions, was one of those whose love of good theatre outstrips their creative talent; and in his one successful comedy. She Stoops To Conquer, he was scarcely able to reverse the dismal, tear-stained course of eighteenth century comedy. Though he looked back discerningly to the broad humor of the "the last age" (he meant the Elizabethans), his work fails to recapture the extravagant buffoonery of their plays...
...Goddard narrowed the margin for the Techmen with a win in the mile run. The winning time (a slow 4:32.2) was made possible by the absence of McCurdy's top distance talent. The "Big Three" of Ed Hamlin, Eddie Meehan, and Bill Crain didn't compete and the Crimson still took second and third behind Gordard...