Word: giftedness
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The story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story...
Let's take an example close to home. Who can say that Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is the most gifted labor economist and administrator of today? Confined to being a lecturer at the Kennedy School because of his lack of a Ph.D. in economics, his "Friend of Bill" status...
Porter was largely self-taught. From the time he found his feet as an artist -- around the mid-1950s -- he stayed away from Manhattan, preferring to paint in Southampton and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, which his family owned. This didn't put him out of contact with...
"We're losing a very gifted and unique person," says Ozment. "Schama gets the undergraduates' attention. He draws them from other concentrations."
People close to Sharp remember her as an academic. Her sister, Penelope Kline Bardel '62, says she expected Sharp to be a professor. "I though she was very gifted academically and temperamentally suited in that direction," she said.