Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied the pans of the quicksilver talent they have been mining these past three years, mixed it with their usual painstaking care and imagination and the resulting creation is indeed pleasant, satisfying, and rare...
...Talent is Made, Not Born...
Shepard has had a long career as player, coach, administrator, and business-man. He uses the fast-break and is noted for developing talent. Three of the first six men on the Davidson squad last season didn't make their high school teams...
...them, and all the other Her-Ex readers, he plays the latest murders for all they are worth-and more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid...
Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...