Word: giftedness
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What was a nice, "serious" musician doing in a piece like this? It was an all-Bernstein program, and the composer had dedicated the overture to Rostropovich by way of acknowledging his arrival in Washington. The music was called Slava!, which is not only the Russian word for glory but...
"Trouble follows me," said Billy Martin, and the quarrel between these two perverse and powerful men often distracted people from a team that was full of fascinating conflicts. It was a sullen, gifted and divided ball club. Watching the owner and manager clash, the players eventually came to distrust them...
It is little wonder that many gifted minority students have poorer grades and test scores than less able white students who are not handicapped by the same socioeconomic disadvantages. The goal of the minority-admissions programs is to seek out minority students who, notwithstanding inferior grades and test scores, are...
Henry Fonda's little girl who went to Vassar grew up to be not only a gifted actress but the Pasionaria of the antiwar movement. In the early '70s Jane marched in protests and starred at rallies, and during a trip to North Viet Nam, spoke against the...
But the problem of establishing herself as something more than a luminous satellite remained. Goodbar was especially satisfying as an answer because it is the heaviest kind of melodrama. As is true of so many gifted comedians. Keaton yearns to evoke horror, jerk tears, turn the faces of onlookers pale...