Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enough already have to make them a fixture of current U.S. college life-like the "A" student and the Goldwater button. What most of the singers have in common is their age (early 20s) and their scorn of the "commercial." What separates them is the quality of their talent...
Only once every five years does the American Academy of Arts and Letters give its Award of Merit Medal to a painter-a procedure that prevents hasty recognition of a talent that might turn out to be only one year's fad. Last week, as if underlining its case for judging in perspective, the academy presented the award and $1,000 to an artist who is three years retired from a careful half-century of working in a style far removed from the painting that dominates today's galleries...
Loeb, Rhoades & Co., "when there are no shortages and when the whole world has adequate capacity?" Carried away by the paper gains of a decade during which it took real talent to lose money on the market, most small investors failed to consider the consequences of an end to inflation. When the stock market hit its December peak, stocks in the Dow-Jones index (a relatively stable, conservative group) were selling at a precariously high 23 times earnings. As prices rose, dividend yields on common stocks fell from their long-term average of 4.9% to less than 3%-well below...
Bravo Giovanni offers a great voice in a tiny void. Metropolitan Opera Basso Cesare Siepi gets the chance to sing a menu. As a display of the conspicuous consumption of talent, this might have staggered Thorstein Veblen. What playgoers will find themselves conspicuously consuming at this musical comedy is their own time...
...recruit new executives by offering them stock options (which, for tax reasons, are more appealing to high-bracket executives than a straight salary boost). This is a vital consideration on Madison Avenue, where personnel changes are frequent because the only commodity an advertising agency really has to sell is talent. And at least potentially, a public stock offering has other attractions for advertising firms: it could help raise expansion capital and make it easier for an agency to merge into bigness through stock swaps...