Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate in the prisons and the camps. But the list is still longer. Our eyes have not seen, and never will see, the end of the list. It contains the names of young writers and poets of whom we learned only by chance, thanks to personal meetings, men whose talent withered in the camps before coming to flower, men whose writings have not been rescued from the offices of the security services...
CEAP leader Robert D. Goldstein '68 said, "We are going to conduct an active talent search for teenagers with specific higher education goals, and help them by tutoring, telling them about getting Federal money, and counseling...
...Having proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became convinced...
...Walter Johnson, a Negro doctor from Lynchburg, Va., whose avocation was encouraging promising young Negro tennis players. Years before, Dr. Johnson had befriended a girl from Harlem named Althea Gibson and started her climb to two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Impressed by Arthur's raw talent, Dr. Johnson started him on the junior tournament trail, paid his traveling expenses and entry fees...
Miss Duffy has a special talent for describing landscape, seascape and weather. But a sea that is always cold and grey and a climate so English that "the morning wept over them" become a too mournful refrain to the novel's dreary proceedings. Next time her hero should try the South Seas...