Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piety and Patrons. Such a harmony of heart and hand belonged to an all but unknown painter named Alesso Baldovinetti, whose Madonna and Child appears on TIME'S cover this week. In any other age, Baldovinetti's talent might have made him the master of his day; while he lived he was known chiefly for his piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which...
Crossfire (American). A lucky combination (talent, front-office permission, a low budget, a rushed shooting schedule, and a subject worth feeling strongly about -anti-Semitism) produced the year's most vivid melodrama (TIME...
Lowered Ax. The merger would also make possible "administrative economies." They had already begun. Less new talent would be hired and there would be no pay increases for stars. Such a policy had long been recommended by Rank's penny-wise chief adviser, ex-Accountant John Davis, 40. In the past he had lost some tiffs to producers who put prestige before profit. Now profit-minded John Davis was the undisputed operating manager...
...time youthful natives are old enough to walk. The earliest hockey game on authentic historical record was played on Montreal's Victoria skating rink with two McGill students piloting the opposing teams. The present coach, popular Dave Campbell, is a heavy believer in the farm system for developing talent...
...latest flower to blossom in Harvard's literary hothouse is more closely related to the political pamphlet than to the literary magazine. Harvard should have at least one frankly political publication. There is talent to spare to put it out, and there is an open field for such a magazine. But in order to satisfy the need of the College community, the magazine should analyze, marshall, and present the arguments for various political beliefs before it reaches its conclusions. It may and should be partisan; but it should explain the reasons for its stand if it expects to carry...