Word: giftedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Says Yvonne Skinner, a former University of Chicago English major who studied with Thornton Wilder and is herself a gifted writer: "We had tremendous arguments about Walden Two. I wouldn't like it; I just like change and privacy."
Anger is the emotion we tend to feel when in doubt about what else we feel. Anger, once justly listed among the seven deadly sins, today is becoming one of our most praised values. In raising anger to an emotional ideal, we have gravely misgauged the limited utility of adrenaline...
It did not. Mark di Suvero is perhaps the least visible major talent in American sculpture: a tough, idealistic, exuberantly gifted man whose work may well contain more lessons about epic scale than any other living American's. But his achievement has until lately been strangely muffled. He has...
Entity with a Grudge. The author's mother was the mistress of Pound's middle and later years, a gifted violinist named Olga Rudge. Since little Mary was a by-blow and an inconvenience -Olga, Pound and Mrs. Pound all moved in the same European artistic circles-she...
It takes Long Boy a while to realize just how gifted his precocious partner is. Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine." Eventually he expands their operations. "Let's go ramify a big, fat farmer," he cries; and playing more on human...