Word: giftedness
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That dream was so persistent, though. Beautiful, for one thing: the blond girl on the record jacket, staring out from everlasting eyes. Gifted, for another: the sensuality of that young voice, singing As Tears Go By with so much worldliness, with such regret. And dangerous, of course. Consorting with the...
Assisting Gielen at the point are freshman Dana Smith and senior Tom Morrison. Smith is a gifted athlete, and Morrison, who played as a freshman for Harvard, but took a two-year layoff before returning, lends maturity to the squad.
(2) The recruiting program at a college should reflect the college's principles. At Harvard the idea is to encourage the application of those students who (a) The Admissions Office would be interested in adding to the composition of the Freshman Class for its own reasons (b) would most likely...
Bolstered by a surreptitious 1984 recording of the Chopin Opus 28 Preludes, Feltsman's reputation grew even while he was in musical exile. In the gossipy world of concert music, word of prodigiously gifted Soviets zips along the grapevine allegro vivace; unheard Russians like Feltsman tend to loom large in...
Now, while quoting Montesquieu's dictum that a "rational army would run away," Keegan has undertaken a kind of sequel that shrewdly explores the various ways in which a gifted commander can not only steel men for battle but lead them to victory as well. Once again he has chosen...