Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Struggle: Back in Saint-Ceré the Poujades set up a small book-and-stationery shop, scraped along on sales of tourist postcards. Elected to municipal council on a Gaullist ticket, Poujade developed a gift for homespun speechmaking...
...best, are even more obscure in Tokyo. Sample English-language ballet program notes of the Fourth Symphony (Tchaikovsky): "People of city and villages gathering for celebration of spring ... A GIRL and her hero are among them. Something bad worries a GIRL. Her YOUNG MAN buys for her a small gift-'Sea Diabol' in small bottle. Girl likes this present and looks at it carefully. Suddenly small bottle drops out of her hands and is broken. SOMEBODY-IN-GREY appears on the spot and leads a GIRL...
...show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town. A dog's life? Maybe not, but it's a thoroughly entertaining one, and moviegoers of whatever age will not be inclined to look such a good-natured gift dog in the mouth...
...peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching a man in mid-passion and life at full flood...
...program of research, made possible by a gift of the John A. Hartford Foundation will concern arthrosclerosis--a type of hardening of the arteries--and related conditions of the heart and blood vessels. Dr. John C. Snyder, Dean of the School of Public Health, called the program "unique" in that it provided for continued research over a period of several years and would allow scientists "to pursue their studies with continuity...