Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the three methods of instruction makes allowance for individual differences in talent or background. Everybody does the same minimum of work, regardless of the fact that certain students may be well versed in some phases of the course and abysmally uninformed about others...
...takes at least as great (and honorable) talent to entertain children as their elders; and if the children are well pleased, those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
...novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which is not always surefire, was not much in evidence...
...Harvard, and the Stadium was frequently utilized when a particularly grandiose production, such as "Agamemnon," was projected. At the same time dramatic activities were springing into existence that were not viewed so placidly by the University. In particular, one George Pierce Baker, a professor of English, was showing remarkable talent for teaching the theatre--playwrighting, set-designing, direction, and so forth. His English 47, later known as the '47 Workshop, produced plays by students, among whom can be listed Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, S. N. Behrman, Robert Edmund Jones, and Theresa Helburn. In 1908, the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Radcliffe's Idler has turned to the Eighteenth Century and Isaac Bickerstaffe's ballad opera for its latest offering, and has gathered enough musical talent from the Choral Society and the Glee Club to make possible a production which, if not a complete success, surmounts considerable production weakness to charm its audience...