First, some of these emissaries are not great ambassadors for our country, which regularly produces highly creative, talented, quirky inventors, musicians, scientists, artists and creative geniuses.
She was particularly interested in the Stanford men's running team, at that time a legendary cohesive body known as the Machine, which regularly outperformed the similarly talented women's team.
Sterling's offices on Park Avenue South were regularly crowded with extremely fat, tall, short and peculiarly talented folks.
One of the inn's most talented foragers is Carol Planes, an Indian, who regularly clambers down slippery rocks to gather shellfish.
But with his conductor competitions and his generosity toward talented younger maestros - Klaus Tennstedt, for instance, now records regularly with the Philharmonic - he would seem to be actively concerned with ensuring the Philharmonic's future.
The question of whether Rockwell was an exorbitantly talented illustrator or a grossly underrated painter has been debated regularly since the early 1920's, when his Saturday Evening Post covers began to make him America's best-loved artist.
I met a woman on a yard at the big women's prison in Chowchilla who was an incredibly talented gardener and became, later, a friend, whom I correspond with regularly.
For years, the French have regularly denounced American racism, and the road from Harlem to Paris was wide, inviting talented American blacks like the singer Josephine Baker, musicians like Sydney Bechet and writers like Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin.
"Not good enough is a bit harsh because is talented and he has contributed well but it's not good enough to play as regularly as he wants compared to the others," he said.
If a lab is regularly publishing papers in high-profile journals, then you know it is well run, well funded, and contains talented people.
