Word: giftedness
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It is not entirely fair to hold Lowry responsible for a novel he neither completed nor published. It is unlikely, though, that given more time and health he would have been able to curb his compulsion for occulturation or tailored his ambition to fit his talents. He was a comr...
A telling commentary on the whole evening was the audience's uncertainty whether to applaud once Chestnut's body was removed from the stage. The plot threads were that tenuous. A few glimpses of Chestnut as a baby, cub scout and young man were projected on the wall of the...
While Hofstadter's writings make clear why he was so outstanding, they do not explain why his friends and students grieve so deeply over his death. He was personally warm, humane, and gifted with a rare sense of humor. Few men of his stature have been so genuinely modest and...
"The data suggest that when a graduate school refuses an applicant because he has dropped out for psychiatric reasons, the school not only closes the door to a student who has as high a probability of completing his education as any other drop-out but may also be denying entrance...
For another example: At the end of the film, Nicholson is again faced with a crisis: he is now alienated from both his bequeathed identity (gifted pianist) and his assumed one (oil rigger cum sumbitch). The moment is poignant enough, but the response of theprotagonist of Five Easy Pieces is...