Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five different Tiger backs evaded Columbia last Saturday on their way to the end zone. Princeton was only supposed to have four runners, but as coach Dick Colman dug deeper and deeper into his reserves he found an astonishing amount of talent...
There was humor, as in the brightly uniformed Captain Jinks, who once was in front of a cigar store. And there was a talent for caricature, as in the stubby statue of Henry Ward Beecher. A Carrousel Rooster scampers off to nowhere, each wooden feather in place. A copper lady of fashion, which once adorned a dressmaker's establishment, is a swirl of rhythm. Eagles, monkeys, cats, lions, woodchucks, hogs, pouter pigeons, turtles and horses make up a delightful menagerie that reported on the wind, beckoned to the thirsty, announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory...
...hour weeks are not unusual, and last year the average age of the men whose obituaries were published in Advertising Age was 61, v. 68 for executives in such related industries as publishing. In return, the admen are well paid. It is not uncommon for an adman with some talent and only five years' experience to enjoy a salary of $15,000 to $20.000-which is about 50% more than a man with similar assets can command in engineering or electronics. "Advertising." exults Marion Harper, who earns over $100,000 a year, "is an intellectual lottery at which everyone...
...institutional campaigns. This year U.S. business, mostly in the fields of construction and heavy manufacturing, will invest close to $600 million in fact-crammed industrial ads intended to attract the eyes of purchasing agents and establish a company's reputation so that it will be invited to supply talent and material and to bid on jobs. In addition, there are ''institutional" ads-such as the Container Corp. of America's series on "Great Ideas of Western Man''-by which companies aim to create an aura of progressiveness in order to recruit customers, stockholders...
Brian Moore, the talented Irish-Canadian author of The Feast of Lupercal and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, is the latest novelist to turn savagely on his own kind. Moore's miscreant hero is Brendan Tierney, a young Belfast short-storyist who has emigrated to New York and lost his faith, acquiring in its place a magazine job, some fake Danish furniture and an authentic American wife. Brendan's problem is that he is almost 30, the age at which a promising writer either writes something or becomes merely a pawned talent...