Word: giftedness
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In Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's...
McCarthy was a gifted minor writer with a penetrating mind and, for all her coldness, considerable charm. She had the treacherous habit of putting real people (friends, enemies, ex-husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion...
It hurts to see perhaps the most gifted quarterback of all time virtually pushed out the door by the team for which he has served loyally and brilliantly for 17 long years.
I, for one, am willing to leave sleuthing to the movies. I have no desire to involve myself in sorting out the trysts which are negotiated and trumped under my window, or join in the rousing ballads of my musically gifted neighbors. I find the world of people I legitimately...
"I'm teaching people who look exhausted," says Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman. "I'm concerned that these gifted students are not getting enough from their studies."