Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confidence. But while everyone in Italy knew of Amintore Fanfani's ambition, Fanfani himself never once mentioned it. He appealed to crowds to "Vote for the Christian Democrats." never asked them to "Vote for Fanfani." Despite his organizing talent, the quick mind of a man who was formerly a professor of economics at Milan's Catholic University, and his years of ministerial experience in postwar governments, Fanfani has more enemies than friends among his own party's leadership...
...lumps when outnumbered by thugs in ambush. A smooth, handsome bruiser with dark curly hair, Diamond (David Janssen) can incapacitate an enemy for hours with his trick judo neck-chop, also has a vicious knee uppercut that comes close to decapitating downed adversaries. Diamond's most amazing talent is his ability to keep his fedora on, no matter how violent the battle. His worst quality seems to be his flagrant affection for fat fees -a penchant that his fellow sleuths seldom flaunt so openly...
...null and he kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned, cut and distorted "his rugged talent to suit the conditions of the time." With peasant toughness. Verdi awaited the day when he would call the tune as well as write...
...virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. For all Haskell's unusual talent, The Battle of Gettysburg was his only literary work. Just eleven months after he wrote his story of the most famous charge in U.S. history, Frank Haskell, by then a colonel, was among the 40,000 men whom Ulysses S. Grant flung headlong against the unyielding Confederate lines at Cold Harbor...
Until a Chair can be founded, there is a wealth of talent possible as guest lecturers in Naturalistic Humanism. If foreign sources are drawn upon, there are in England such men as Dr. Julian Huxley, biologist, formerly Director General of UNESCO, and Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and first Director General of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; and in Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there...