Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years." All the critics did not go overboard in this headlong fashion, but many agreed that here was a new talent...
...Mass was written for available talent at Salzburg in 1782. In that case the abilities must have been reversed, for Monday night Paul Tibbetts did the best bit of solo work with the one short phrase that makes up the bass part. No one could have any criticism, however, of Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett...
Sylvia, who also runs a talent agency and books theater parties in her spare time, charges $10 for ten months of club membership. For this, the member gets a chance to buy a pair of tickets, at the box-office price, to the club's monthly show selection, or an alternate. He also gets the club newspaper's breathless bulletins on forthcoming shows and, as an occasional "bonus," a chance to buy tickets at a discount to a preview...
Less than 1% of conservatory students have "great talent" and can succeed on the concert platform, he decided. What about the others...
...Oscar Wagner, onetime dean of the Juilliard Graduate School, who went to Los Angeles to help, put White's idea into whole tones: "The day is gone when all a fellow needed was a little talent, a velvet collar and long hair. Now he must have a more versatile education and that's what we're working toward...