Word: giftedness
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From kindergarten onward, students are off on a marathon of constant learning that takes them over a series of examination hurdles, the last of which determines admission to college and in effect a career. Individuals are driven, but academic achievement is a group endeavor. Everyone is expected to learn, and...
Fifty years is a long time. Perhaps Eddie Murphy will show nothing more than firefly form: a flash of lightning followed by critical and popular pans. Perhaps he will tire of squeaky-clean living and head for Pryor-like self-immolation. Perhaps he will cease to be an entertainment event...
Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht were among the most gifted writers of their time. Artist Max Ernst made surrealism accessible to a generation. The architects-in-exile of the Bauhaus, led by Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, changed the face of the American city. Middle European Physicists Albert...
"It's not just that we're losing a gifted quarterback," Restic says of his prize senior field general Don Allard. We're also losing a truly remarkable leader and person: and that's something that's hard to replace.
Duvall, a gifted, risk-taking actor for 20 years (Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies), plays men whose rage seems about to explode from their guts. Always Duvall watches, looking for the tiniest tear in society's fabric. As the entrepreneur of Angelo My Love, he has found a dozen spirited...