Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 16 years spent learning his trade in routine jobs, Diplomat Murphy's breakthrough came in 1936. with the arrival in Paris of Ambassador William Bullitt, a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt's and a man with a sharp eye for young talent. "When I got to Paris." recalls Bullitt, "Murphy was No. 3 consul. He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.'' By 1939 Murphy was a full-blown counselor at the Paris embassy. "This," says Bullitt, "was going up very...
...slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury, has not pitched since May 13. But Manager Fred Haney's youngsters, carefully nurtured in the talent-rich farm system, were ready. The record at mid-August...
Diane Lawson was not practicing the world's oldest profession, but one of its newest; she was collecting contestants for TV's talent-hungry quiz shows. Once they heard her pitch, the people Diane propositioned probably figured that they were headed toward quizdom's glory. Few realized that the road to the big payoff would be a maze of interminable interviews and pseudoscientific character analyses...
Most of the women who work at contestant-collecting claim that the job requires only one real talent: the ability to recognize a phony. "But the one thing we always notice," says one Lawson rival, "is that people tend to change like Jekyll into Hyde the minute they win 25 bucks. They go kind of nuts with that carrot in front of 'em. They win something and boom! All the things you picked 'em for go out the window. All they're thinking about is the damned money...
Truth & Sensuality. Has Durrell succeeded in his effort to discover a new "unity" for fiction? He has, to the degree that few readers can be indifferent to his work or unaware that they are encountering a formidable talent. But, as was the case with Proust and Joyce, his greatest impact may be on other writers-who have become increasingly dismayed at the possibility of finding anything to say in the "realistic" novel that has not already been said better by Tolstoy. Dostoevsky, Melville, Thackeray, Balzac...