Word: talents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They could, however, carry a tune, and rarely has so much talent worked for free and for fun. Mary Mayo and Joe Williams sang, and when Nixon and Agnew were not using it, the piano was rotated among Hank Jones, Dave Brubeck and Fatha Hines, who nearly sent its legs flying with a ripping rendition of Perdido. Best of all, perhaps, was the Duke's own improvisation of "something soft and gentle" on the name of Pat. Mrs. Nixon was enchanted...
...they claim the whole movie industry boils down to these days. In 1969, they will say, a starlet will have to sleep her way to the top. What these cynics fail to realize is that sometimes a girl hits stardom with the help of such things as beauty and talent...
Terry Oxford suffered the only Crimson loss of the afternoon to John Bunker, 7-5, 7-5, at third singles, but throughout the remainder of the ladder, Harvard's talent was devastating...
...WRITER from Paris in the Atlantic Monthly a while ago lamented upon the scarcity of exceptional literary talent in France today, and suggested that this talent has been channeled into film...
...style who has in recent years been a flashily successful practitioner of that mournful art. His first book, The Interrogation, a kind of Krapp's First Tape, won France's third most prestigious literary award, the Prix Renaudot. His second novel, The Flood, a further torrent of talent and eloquence put mainly to the purposes of adolescent simpering, was also drowned with praise. But it is doubtful if any amount of critical bolstering will be able to shore up his latest novel, which reads a bit like an endless progressive-rock lyric in search of a psychedelic score...