Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson also stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History said of the resignation and the proposed appointment of Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers, "It would require talent to lower the standards of the office any further, but if anybody can do it, Rogers...
...father, told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...
...again it is difficult to draw the line where farce ceases to convince. Gail Jones and Phyllis Ferguson were the two ambitious young ladies, and they went through all the motions, but somehow left the impression that they did not believe in it themselves, and farce surely requires the talent to be earnestly absurd, rather than merely posturing. Misses Jones and Ferguson seemed a bit too liberal with gestures, but perhaps this was a fault of the direction. The whole performance gives the impression of too conscious movement...
...subsidiary's production of these two very different plays provides a very pleasant afternoon, and serves well its function of developing talent and exploiting relatively unknown dramatic material...