Word: giftedness
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Listening to Hall talk about the Delta 2000 is like listening to a Jewish mother talk about her son who just got into Harvard; overwhelming pride, boastful enthusiasm and the sense that the god-gifted off-spring can do just about anything in the world are the common repertoire of...
She was Vita Sackville-West, the darkly handsome child of a great Kentish family, a minor poet and novelist (The Edwardians). He was Harold Nicolson, cherubic British diplomat, Member of Parliament, brilliant belletrist and historian (Making Peace, Some People). They were married in 1913 and stayed married for nearly half...
Iron Backbone. In Congress, Albert became extraordinarily popular. Small (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs.) and self-effacing, he showed himself to be considerate of other members' sensitivities, and trustworthy. Regarded as a tireless worker and gifted parliamentarian, he became assistant Democratic leader in 1955 under Rayburn, who called...
Paul Rosenbloom is one of the best pianists in the University and a gifted composer. Joe Conte has played Rosenbloom's compositions before, so their joint recital at Holmes on Sunday should present the contemporary pieces in the best possible light. The remainder of the program is worth hearing, too...
Goldfein, a former teacher of history and economics, is also a highly gifted mimic, and this fact permits a discovery whose triviality cannot be exaggerated: all the great thinkers of history (except maybe Hegel, dot krautkopf) talk and think in exactly the same speech and prose patterns! A further discovery...