Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notably some unlikely melodramatics at the end-House is a well-constructed movie. Into its making went an intelligent screen play by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan; some distinguished lighting effects and camera work by Milton Krasner; and Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz's talent for handling atmosphere and sets as effective projections of character. Meatiest character, of course, is arrogant old Monetti, a role which Robinson plays (Italian accent, organ-grinder mustache and all) with bravura and obvious relish...
Wilson," he has instead hidden his light under a bale of mistresses and drowned his talent in gallons of Canadian Club. Through almost the whole of this novel, Hero Baxter is at odds with himself, is in constant danger of being unable to keep his seat on a barstool, or is busy escaping the hot clutches of girl friends and trollops. Through it all, Baxter permits the reader to share his every picayune thought and gesture, e.g., "He dropped the match. It fell-thhhh-into the cuspidor...
...found in the chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy and sometimes to infuriate. With it he also has the talent to make a reader admire the technique of the Mencken flaying process even as his sympathy goes out to the victim...
...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...
...Harvest. Since war's end, fans had been wondering impatiently when baseball's new crop of talent would be reaped. As the season neared its mid-point they had their answer. Dino Restelli was the most sensational of a bumper crop of rookies who had had to go to war before becoming big-leaguers...