Word: giftedness
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Corporate help to public education is on the rise elsewhere. In Houston, 42 companies are working with 37 schools; in Los Angeles 103 firms, including such giants as ARCO and Prudential Insurance Co. of America, have befriended 115 institutions. The aid can come in the form of monetary contributions, donated...
This is the direction of George Mills, Elkin's longest, most complex novel. The burdens of the author's previous fictions are given full weight. The narrative path is steep, circuitous and mined with disease and humiliations. The voices of third and first persons mingle, and time runs...
But faculty members in the Philosophy department are quite seriously calling him a genius. "Anders is without question one of the most gifted students we have," says one professor. Weinstein also, dabbles with computers: presently, he is a teaching fellow for Applied Sciences II.
The Jellicles are assembled for a clan ritual. Annually, the revered elder, Old Deuteronomy, played like a benign biblical patriarch by Ken Page, chooses a deserving Jellicle to ascend "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside Layer," and be born again. While this serves...
ONLY AN unrepentant dreamer or a gifted Hollywood scriptwriter could have conjured up the scene that was evolving out on the playing field in Baltimore last Sunday. Though their team had just been clobbered in a do-or-die season finale, 50,000-plus Oriole fans were on their feet...