Word: giftedness
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Your cover story on Erma Bombeck [LIVING, July 2] was a revealing close-up of that gifted lady. I must be a maverick. I am not one of her fans. But I admire her ability and the self-discipline she brings to her work. If she has been able to...
According to one of Michael's closest advisers, when it comes to matters of professional strategy or decision making, one of the world's biggest stars just says, "I'm one of six," and casts his vote with Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, Randy and Jackie. This is not...
Strouse defines this central conflict as the struggle between self-knowledge and innocence, and all the James children shared that pressure. But Alice had a second more immediate dilemma of her own. She realized that, on the one hand, she was too gifted and too willful to rival her mother...
The Dayton Herald took on a gifted but erratic recruit after Bombeck graduated from the university. As a reporter, she recalls, "I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order." Even with...
Humorists do not cry, much, and Bombeck returned to life in Arizona without a backward look. Her children are on their own now (Bombeck gives a heartfelt "whew!" and wipes her hand across her forehead). Betsy is a computer retailer in Los Angeles; Andrew, who served in the Peace Corps...