Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
Schaus soon found that the West Virginia hills grow a hardy breed of human kangaroos on high school basketball courts, now sets out night after night over the winding West Virginia roads in his 1957 Chevrolet to search for talent at high school games. Ohio-born Coach Schaus uses a recruiting argument that seems to work: he went out of his state to play ball, he explains, and now is almost a stranger back home. The moral: stay home and stay known...
Restoring Oppenheimer's security clearance would correct an obvious injustice and at the same time encourage needed scientific talent to enter government service...
Russian scientific achievements have served to warn this nation that it can ill-afford to waste valuable scientific talent. Considering the present situation as well as the history of the Oppenheimer "case," the Administration should restore J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance...
...Gray Board decision left a bad taste in the mouths of many scientists who at the time considered working for the government. When professional competence, unchallenged loyalty, and a vigorous and uncompromising intellect become irrelevant in assessing a scientist's right to work for the government, valuable talent will be scarce...