Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faculty and married students must already balance the advantages of Harvard against the disadvantages of city life--in the form of bad housing bad schools, impassable traffic, poor health, high delinquency, high taxes, and poor public services. Harvard's attraction is often insufficient, and valuable talent goes elsewhere...
...large programs are now operating: the General Motors National Program, and National Merit Scholarships, a $20,000,000 offspring of the Ford Foundation, born last September. Both plans have one stated aim--to draw more of America's potential talent into higher education, the highroad to an industrial desk...
Compared to college administration of scholarship funds, the national Scholorama is financially unsound. If it has any justification, it is in bringing talent to college which would otherwise ignore the opportunity. The evidence indicates that it does this only to a very limited degree...
This job can only be done by experienced and competent guidance counsellors, who can spot students with ability and show them both the advantages and the openings in higher education. If anybody really wants to get talent into the colleges, the money should be spent in the state capitols, lobbying for adequate counselling in every high school...
Audiences loved him, but he was squandering his talent, and he knew it. The solution for that was pretty Aniela Mlynarski, daughter of a Polish conductor with whose orchestra Rubinstein had played as a boy. He met her when she was 16, married her when she was 22 and he was 43. Within a year he was a father (of Eva, now an actress in the Broadway hit The Diary of Anne Frank), and the responsibility made a serious and disciplined musician out of him. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What...