Word: giftedness
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DIED. Cornelia Otis Skinner, 78, gifted monologist, actress and humorist; of a stroke; in New York City. Cornelia was weaned on her actor father's renditions of Shakespeare, and made her Broadway debut with him in 1921. Too tall and gawky to play ingenues, she built her stage career...
But with some heroic exceptions - Maass mentions a country priest imprisoned for speaking out against anti-Semitism - there were too few voices to protest the dispossession and the expulsion of the Jews. "The greater majority of the population," writes Maass candidly, "were either too indifferent or too scared to act...
The book's title emphasizes the discrepancy, in law, between what a witness says on the stand-which could in fact be handed to the jury as a written transcript-and how he says it, his general demeanor, the matter of flesh-and-blood delivery that sways a jury...
Chase the Game focuses on three high-spirited adolescents from the decaying slums of Bridgeport, Conn. Walter Luckett, who made the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED while just out of high school, is a gifted black who feels more at ease with whites and plays a cool, deliberate white man'...
Your article tends to perpetuate the questionable notion that a high IQ is synonymous with giftedness. It only tells us that a person has the potential for gifted behavior, but unless intelligence is combined with creativity and commitment, and shows up in performance, we have no rationale for assuming that a child is gifted...