Word: giftedness
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Died. Langston Hughes, 65, one o] the most gifted and prolific of American Negro writers; of uremia; in Manhattan. There was only one theme for Hughes-Negro life in the U.S.-and he was, as he said, "telling it like it is" long before the phrase became part of the...
Just before graduation, he married Jean Stafford. Two years his senior, she was intense, beautiful, a gifted writer of fiction (she later wrote Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) and an assistant professor at Stevens College in Columbia, Mo. And so, with his marriage, his graduation and his conversion, he at...
A difficult man. A gifted man. Probably a great man. But certainly a hero. The usual fate of heroes is to be frozen in history at the moment of their triumph. At 65, Lindbergh may find the 25-year-old boy as awkwardly remote as would any other aging hero...
Barthelme is a gifted anarchist in the world of words, and he offers no explanation of his purpose in Snow White. As in Alice in Wonderland, there are plenty of inner meanings and symbols to be found-social, psychological, existential, political. But the search for a point is simply not...
Washington General. Tall and polished, Bus Wheeler, 59, is a Washingtonian by birth and a Washington general by training. Unlike his five predecessors and many other prominent alumni of the Joint Chiefs, Wheeler has always been the planner and strategist, never a war hero or even much of a combat...