Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thes purpose of the contest is to stimulate play writing in the University, and to encourage undergraduate talent. Each contribution will receive the careful attention of Massey and the committee of selection, and in every case where especial ability is shown the author will be asked to hold his manuscript for future...
...Many gifted musicians have failed to attain more than mediocre success because they were unwilling to sacrifice time and energy to the development of their talents. Work is essential," she said. "Those imbued with musical talent too often do not realize that their inherent abilities will not be of any use or pleasure to the world unless, with work and sacrifice, they do all in their power to develop them...
...seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some serious content, the almanack succeeds in being splendidly, entertainingly insane...
...Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers...
...search. And while his undergraduate, training can not have left him bare of all general knowledge, the necessity of keeping apace or in advance of the rush of discovery grants no opportunity for attention, however desirable, to other learning. But the faculty of being perfectly dull is an luborn talent, and not the result of training...