Word: giftedness
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(2 of 12) Control ? all signs indicate that today's students are more poorly equipped in basic skills than were their predecessors. After holding steady for decades, the average scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the broadest standard of nationwide educational achievement, have...
Woods now has time, lots of time. He is forbidden to write at all, even in a private diary. The government is watching-as part of the ban, the Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance...
True Confessions, John Gregory Dunne's first novel, is Tom Spellacy's unrepentant recollections of his life as a tarnished blue knight. He proves to be a gifted, foulmouthed raconteur who can charm the reader down to a plane where cynicism and sentimentality are indistinguishable and the difference...
ONE MAJOR SHORTCOMING keeps the film from being an artistic triumph: Like the initial works of most gifted writers, Pinero's script has the mark of a genuine talent that needs polish. Though the morality parable in the film points to a considerable amount of insight and sensitivity, the motifs...
Second Baseman Davey Lopes, whom Lasorda converted from an outfielder in the minors, credits the manager with creating a major league career for him. Says Lopes: "If someone takes an interest in me as a man as well as a player, our overall relationship will be improved. Of all Tommy...