Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry V Shakespeare gives us his paragon, a king in which title and talent are triumphantly twinned...
...anxieties of the French students are fed by the fact that, unlike their counterparts in the U.S., they face a vocational future that is highly uncertain. French business tends to shun the liberal-arts graduate as a source of executive talent, much prefers youths with technical training. Thus some of the nation's brightest, most thoughtful youths are most affected by the unpredictability of the forces for change. "France is in the midst of a transition from old ways to new," notes Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, "and many of the young people don't know where they are going...
...Serge Koussevitzky gave his Boston Symphony players a dazzling demonstration of bass playing, one of them said he was so good that "he sounded like a lousy cellist." At the time, Koussevitzky was one of three men in the 250-year history of the instrument who had mustered enough talent, courage and sense of humor to qualify as a virtuoso bass soloist...
...Charles's innovation brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
...such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin argues it this way: "There's no patent on it. It's just feeling things. A housewife in Nebraska has soul, but she represses it, makes it conform to a lot of rules like marriage, or sugarcoats...