Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
...hopping mad. They objected particularly to the Committee's habit of "trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
Exactly the opposite is true of George Bluestone's "The Funeral." Here we have a deal of skimble-skamble stuff poured out with absolutely no result. The simplest thing to be said about its author is that he has no talent. The contrast between the two stories is the contrast between Mr. Fodor's realism and Mr. Bluestone's realisticness. Thus in the latter we have an endless cast of characters who speak in a hodgepodge of scrupulously correct and scrupulously incorrect English which is characterized as "Jewish." These characters collect together at the funeral of an old lady...
...done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished," he says...
...mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax, the excitement meant for a later one; to make each part shine for itself, and fit in a whole. It is not a metronome that is required, but taste, talent, culture and care-and some musical X besides. Toscanini has that X blazoned on his forehead...