Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack. He was 45, and like the father in his novel, died "in his strength." Unfortunately, he left few works behind him, among them no other novels. His was a unique talent, combining a rare sensitivity to the drama of domestic situations and a just as rare gift for poetic language. It's sad to think that equally fine works might have followed A Death in the Family. The book deserves to be read with the same kind of care he gave to its writing...
...replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels had changed the throne into stones...
Construction of a special section room last year forced Winthrop to commit about fifty percent of this year's Ford grant to meet its cost. A portion of next year's gift also will be allocated for this purpose, Mavrinac indicated, but the remainder will be used for the long-term program...
...Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...
Jean Kerr is a kind of wrong-way Anne Morrow Lindbergh flying not to but from contemplative solitude. Like Gift from the Sea, Please Don't Eat the Daisies offers a busy suburban wife's observations on life, but where Author Lindbergh listened for wisdom in the humming of a sea shell, Author Kerr listens for gags in the clatter of a typewriter. She has brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell...