Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps even Caesar's great talent could not make tolerable his screaming, shouting, yelling all his lines. Television comes into a living room. Remember...
...Over the heads of millions of viewers (Viewers whose heads should be roasted on skewers) Sails the talent of Caesar and crew, Not missed by the many, but mourned...
With that age-old feminine talent for ferreting out secrets, mothers, wives and girl friends orbiting around the U.S. Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. got the word one day last week that it was testing time for another big one. All week explosions had been going off all over the world-the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile...
Occupational Hazards. As Heald has already learned, running a foundation is full of pitfalls. No one could possibly quarrel with the foundation's recent grant of $25 million to the National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program to draw more talent into college teaching by helping promising graduate students. On the other hand, the $500,000 grant to set up an exchange program for U.S. and Polish artists and intellectuals could well have stirred up a flurry of protests. But politics and public opinion aside, philanthropy faces nettlesome occupational hazards...
...satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...