Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academicians want the Festival to concern itself mainly with experimental theater and plays that might not have the chance to be produced elsewhere. They want something smaller, with local talent, free from the exigencies of financial success...
Autobiography was Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe. As he wrote in his Autobiography: "I imagine myself in my childhood, as a hive to which all manner of simple people brought, as the bees bring honey, their knowledge and thoughts about life, generously enriching my soul with what they had to give. The honey was often dirty, and bitter, but it was all the same knowledge--and honey...
...pleasant first act. The visitor arrives in 1957 from afar, his timing a little askew: he had hoped (and dressed) for the Civil War. Under the surveillance of a general from the Pentagon, he looks about, comments, inquires, and finding that waging war is still Earth's mightiest talent, is all ready to wage an outsized one himself. After that, though satire still fitfully raises its slightly aching head, Visit introduces just about every known vaudeville and revue routine except xylophone-playing and sawing a woman in half. There is an animal act of a sort. There...
...Taste & Talent. A tour of duty tinkering with the great, slow-churning marine turbines of such ships as the Rex and the Conte di Savoia gave Alfieri a taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
McCurdy hopes that Giegengack also has troubles, for if Yale is at full strength, the defending Heptagonal champions and Big Three victor will be hard-pressed to continue its mastery of the Blue. Princeton, with little talent, should do no more than cause trouble for both teams...