Word: giftedness
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Before committing herself to Harvard, though, the Biology-turned-Economics concentrator toyed briefly with the idea of going to art school. A gifted painter, Finn has sold a number of her water-color-and-oil landscapes and houses to friends and admirers.
The displacement of Japanese Americans in 1942 was not entirely without benefit. The Federal Government allowed Nisei to work in rural mid-America, far from the strategic areas. As a result, in 1943 the school board of St. Edward, Neb. (pop. 720), hired Peter Ida to teach in its high...
In each case the essential subject is the same-a woman surrounded by a crowd of men, who peer at her, offer advice, listen or look with varying degrees of veiled prurience, and otherwise impose on her. In The Arts-Drawing, 1760, the old man is rhapsodizing over her work...
A swooping swimmer in churning blue water, a nearly invisible running horse latticed with bands of light, a jagged greenish swirl, a diver poised before takeoff. These photographs, ranging from impressionism to clear abstraction, are the work of Joel Walker, a gifted amateur cameraman, who took them for his amusement...
Most often an actor's amplitude just happens, then turns out to be a help. It is especially useful to a gifted but lesser known journeyman such as Pat Mines, who after 29 years in show business is at last in a Broadway hit, playing the wily courtier Count...