Word: giftedness
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Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian...
After ten years of silence, Peter Høeg’s fifth novel “The Quiet Girl” hits Danish and international public alike in the form of a loud and eclectic pseudo-thriller. Labeled as post-modern, magical-realist, social realist, and gothic (to name...
This moment—a time of beginnings, with new deans in the FAS and the GSD, a new undergraduate curriculum, and a new campus emerging across the rive —seems propitious for an ambitious rethinking of the place of arts practice at Harvard. Recent developments in the...
One Sunday afternoon in the Lowell JCR, eight students in their post-brunch T-shirts and sweats stand in a semi-circle as Matthew J. Hall ’09 tidies his sheet music at the piano. The Harvard Early Music Society is rehearsing for its biannual opera, Henry Purcell?...
It's not the players' fault. Their fervor in France was the Cup's saving grace. Lined up before matches, imbibing their anthems, most looked ready and able to astonish with honed athleticism. Alas, rugby these days teases but seldom delivers. Its laws prevent even the most gifted players from...