Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles,and fair Fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to,rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault...
Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...
...seemed to yearn for the tragic actors and the monumental stage sets of Renaissance Europe. He began to produce ever larger, ever emptier pictures of a girl with her back turned (she might have been his own Muse). At last, as if his pictures were decaying with his talent, he gave his canvases a moldy, gnawed-on look by painting cracks and holes in them...
Last summer, fortified by a $500 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, Gerschefski settled down in a farmhouse in West Cambridge, N.Y., above the Ramapos, with his wife, who is also a composer and pianist, and their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing...
Joan isn't much good at keeping her mind on her business; whenever a man stands upwind from her, she tends to go buttery-eyed (a trick for which Miss Caulfield has a pretty talent). Veronica has to be coldhearted enough for both of them; but as it turns out, she is vulnerable, too. Both fall for an earnest, shabby oaf (well played by George Reeves) who dreams of modernizing his community with a power plant. Both help raise the money which will make his dream come true. And both plan to make off with it, love...