Word: giftedness
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Getting into these gilded institutions is more than half the battle for success in France. American Psychologist Kenneth Keniston characterizes the time spent in special classes preparing for entrance examinations as a "period spent in the monastery." Each school has its own stiff requirements for an aspiring entrant, which are...
The son of a Texas sharecropper, Bradley moved West with his parents at age seven in a used Model T. His father struggled to support the family as a waiter and railroad porter and eventually separated from his wife. During the Depression the Bradleys had to accept public assistance, in...
In the confused and beleaguered movie industry, this is a tall order. But Lucas is still a very young man. And an endlessly gifted one.
He was an immigrant, a nomad, a natural aristocrat condemned to anguish by his pride and fastidiousness. He was also, beyond question, one of the most gifted artists ever to work in New York, where he had landed in 1920.
Howard Hughes died batty and beset by phantoms, and all of us learned valuable lessons from his downfall: do not let your fingernails grow to excess, do not inherit too much money, do not fly too high. The man's decay was so pathetic and so gaudy that it...