Word: giftedness
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Those whom the U.S. would bomb, it also calls talented. "You are a good and gifted people," President Bush assured Iraqi TV viewers after the fall of Baghdad, an echo of many previous references to Iraqis' "talents." Some call this language condescending; others, a mark of real admiration.
But maybe the President just watches more reality TV than he lets on. If he did, he would see his own people trying mightily to prove that they are talented and gifted--and that when it comes to doing yo-yo tricks to Walk Like an Egyptian, we are indeed...
Many of the Idolettes break from Idol--with its nasty barbs from judge Simon Cowell--through an assertive positivity. They insist, sometimes despite heavy evidence to the contrary, that the contestants are good and gifted enough and that, doggone it, people like them. In this new, post-mean reality, America...
Why did a gifted writer like Joe Klein [IN THE ARENA, April 14] so gratuitously taunt President Bush about his inability to spontaneously speak about complex ideas and state that "he has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do"? If Bush had another handicap, such as...
But, according to Chase, Kaczynski’s violent tendencies really emerged when he was subjected to severe psychological stress by Henry A. Murray, then a professor in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality...