Word: giftedness
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Sisters is being promoted as a routine shocker of the kind that has made its distributor, American-International, rich and infamous. But it is something more-and more interesting-than that. It is a homage by a gifted, if erratic, young director, Brian de Palma (Hi Mom, Greetings), to one...
While these letters are probably not of much interest to students of Freudian thought, since Freud, from his side, has fairly effectively kept their intellectual content to a minimum, they are valuable as documents to the man's working personality. Though the correspondence also does not add information that is...
In Herrnstein's view, too, schools should use tests to uncover children's inherited strengths and build on them, instead of acting as "a pipeline through which society tries to generate talent where there is none. Those not gifted should learn a trade."
He continues to be one. The central figure of the present book is Brian Casey, a gifted Irish-American Senator who wants, or seems to want, to be President. A peculiarity of the novel is that Casey's character becomes progressively less vivid and distinct as the narration advances...
KAEL IS ALL for the underdog. At times she seems to hunger for that ole simple straight talkin' soul, that sensibility set aside for off hours and cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has...