Word: giftedness
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After Plath died, her manuscript passed to Ted Hughes, who was legally still her husband. Hughes reordered the poems and dropped about a third of them; he also added a few poems that Plath had left out. That in itself is hardly a crime--even a genius needs a good...
A war year, an election year. That must mean big numbers: voting blocs, body counts. But numbers numb, allowing easy generalizations of the Other. Instead, read these images; they humanize the abstract. "The Army" is revealed as young folks far from home, and "Iraqis" as 24 million individuals, some grateful...
Despite the fact that the play was completely delivered in dialogue and that no changes were made to the stage set up throughout the night, there wasn’t a lull in the crowd’s attention, and no one left the two hour production looking unenthused. Consistent...
I think 2004 should also go down as the year of the unlikely comeback. Artists well past their expiration dates reemerged to add chapters to their biographies. In a possible precursor to the apocalypse, a happy and productive Brian Wilson finally finished and released SMiLE, sending shockwaves through critical circles...
If the frequency that the Harvard-Radcliff Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage The Pirates of Penzance (every four to five years) speaks of the wide appeal of the operetta, the sold out audiences speak as loudly to the ability of this particularly gifted cast.