Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...also become less topical. Its cockiness about labor- which had led it to treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein's best talent-for mimicking fashionable chatter and parodying popular songs-came into play, was The Cradle really...
Dissenters grant Wolfe a large talent, but claim that his technical deficiencies prevented him from fully realizing his potentialities. Such critics are appalled by what they consider Wolfe's undisciplined and often pointless verbosity, his naive egotism and his outrageous lack of organized knowledge about the modern world. Bernard De Voto summed up this view in four words: "Genius is not enough...
...About Town (French). Rene Clair's gentle genius, operating at the level of high talent, in an exquisitely finished comedy (TIME...
...with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book during the next three...