Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher stakes. Once in politics. he discarded his Western dress. Though brought up an Anglican, he turned Buddhist. Today, at 57, Bandaranaike lives a fairly Spartan life with his wife and three children. Stooped, gaunt and bespectacled, he has an uncanny understanding of his fellow Ceylonese. And his talent for expediency has never left him. Those who do not admire him are fond of reciting a little jingle...
...Paul Hutchinson was a rare and happy man; he knew what he wanted to do, and he had the talent to do it with offhand distinction. A minister of the Methodist church, Paul Hutchinson brought the lively and articulate intellect of an exceptionally able journalist to his selected task: "Communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age." He was still vigorously communicating when he died last Sunday in Beaumont, Texas of a ruptured aorta...
...Brown, coach of the 150-crew, echoed Leavitt's problems, only to a slightly greater degree. Out of 24 rowers, he has only four experienced men. He feels that this drop in rowing talent is caused mainly by the fact that fewer prep-school graduates are coming out for crew. In general, it is only the private school, according to Brown, which has the necessary facilities for developing a crew...
Most of the tennis talent comes each year from the Eastern prep schools, and generally Harvard gets the largest portions. This year, however, the Crimson, according to Wynn, shares many of the experienced players who graduated from prep schools last spring. Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, and especially Yale, which has one of its strongest squads in years, will all provide stiff opposition for the Yardlings. The first important test of the freshmen's power will come this Saturday at Hanover when they face Dartmouth...
...success of the theatre at Harvard rests in the realizeation by faculty and by student that the goal is not professional drama, but the development of undergraduate talent--the theatre should not be an end in itself...