Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hers is a carnival kind of talent, not naturally adapted to the chic mannerisms, the sexy wiggles or the whining American vocal inflections that she often attempts, but a pleasant one nevertheless...
Major Barbara, on any basis of talent, is certainly major Shaw. Seldom was G.B.S. so fertile and brilliant-though he seldom so needed to be. For here the tireless showman who put on this mask and that, turned to this side or the other, came closest to a complete about-face. Here, in exalting a great munitions-maker, Socialist Shaw fired, as never so fiercely again, on his own ranks. The real weakness of Major Barbara is not that Shaw went ideologically into reverse, but that he went intellectually clean off the road...
...relief for small businessmen is long overdue. But small businessmen are aware that even with tax relief they must make some drastic changes in the way they operate. To keep up with a complex and fast-changing economy, they know they must have more managerial training and executive talent. Says Herbert Barchoff, member of the Small Business Administration's national advisory council and president of Manhattan's $4,000,000-a-year Eastern Rolling Mills: "The day has passed when a seat-of-the-pants entrepreneur, by gumption and ingenuity, could build a fair-sized business...
Pianist Entremont seemed to have a talent as impressive as the late William Kapell's-speed, big tone, a sense of soul, flair. Even if he had flubbed a tricky rhythm, nobody would have known it, for Entremont played with a momentum that swept all before him. Few in the audience liked the Jolivet concerto much at first, but when the final notes faded there was a roar of approval. The orchestra refused to share the pianist's reward, simply sat tight and applauded...
...confessed "thwarted writer," dotes on young writers and boards as many of them as she can corral. They call her Lowney. Her star pupil, and still the star boarder at the Handy colony, is James (From Here to Eternity) Jones. To him Lowney is an inspiring evangelist of talent who "taught me everything I know." To less favored literary aspirants whom the trigger-tempered Lowney has not hesitated to cast into the outer dark, she is an unpalatable blend of army top kick and prison warden, running a literary brainwashing machine...