Word: giftedness
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SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, by Joan Didion. Twenty essays by a gifted writer who transforms even the most joyous of people and places (hippies, Haight-Ashbury) into her own melancholy image.
ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry.
The playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things...
Where gifted men such as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy have been discarded by the President, Fortas has endured. He has never put himself under Johnson's complete control.
Such literary facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an...