Mr. Booth wrote "The Critic, Power, and the Performing Arts Columbia University Pressss, 1991), an analysis of criticism's impact on theater, dance and music and, in particular, how critics discover and sustain talent.
"The war for talent is at the heart of economic growth, and education plays an important part in creating and sustaining talent in Singapore," he said, adding that another government agency was linking graduating students with Singaporean employers in key growth industries.
While questions may now surround Tiger's sustaining talent, the questions surrounding his character have been answered.
It suggests that Fu, who came from very humble circumstances and was largely self-taught, was sustained by exceptional talent and a steely yet flexible dedication to his art.
Scraped raw by her job, sustained by a talent for brutality and a trust in the culture of Mother Russia, she is strung out, impatient to the point of operational sloppiness.
At a time when Powell's journals have struggled to find an American library to hold them, and Loos's Hollywood serial, "The Better Things of Life," which Wilson praised as the Hollywood fiction "with most teeth in it," has vanished from view, it would seem more urgent to press on readers actual books written by women who achieved and sustained their formidable talent against the formidable odds.
If Cather's literary life was centered in New York, her talent was sustained by Nebraska.
As a painter, Watanabe was a man of great originality whose talent was sustained by sound technique based on untiring sketching.
Her successor, Mr. Pelley, stood out on "60 Minutes" mostly because of his talent for sustained, probing interviews with prickly subjects, which is not as important when the job calls for reading 60-second news items off a teleprompter.
It is also true that the United States has sustained injuries in a talent pool that is not getting any bigger or better a decade past the golden age of the 2002 World Cup.
