Word: giftedness
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Kosinski faults himself and Abbott's other literary friends. "We pretended he had always been a writer. It was a fraud. It was like the '60s, when we embraced the Black Panthers in that moment of radical chic without understanding their experience." There is another analogy from the...
Whether bursting the seams of a five-story New York City brownstone and a summer home at Oyster Bay, or sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so...
Santa Fe (pop. 50,000) has become an even more sophisticated haven than in the early decades of the century, when D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and other writers and artists settled in its environs. They were outsiders, and Santa Fe has since become, with some disgruntlement, a city...
In the end, the most stunning change of all was made on Centre Court. For the first time in half a decade, Bjorn Borg was beaten at Wimbledon, and a new champion, John McEnroe, was crowned. McEnroe, whose tantrums angered the crowds and, at one point, moved officials to threaten...
Little more than a year ago, West Germany was the confident powerhouse of Europe. Powerful it still is, and undoubtedly it will remain so, but the populous (61.3 million), rich (1980 per capita income: $12,400) and gifted nation that has so often been a victim of its own excesses...