Word: giftedness
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Salvation in a Sugar Cube. The front ranks of the avant-garde are rapidly expanding. Stan VanDerBeek, Gregory vlarkopoulos, Bruce Conner, Robert Breer, Ed Emshwiller and Harry Smith have all done work of a high order. An even newer and no less gifted generation of moviemakers-Ben Van Meter, Ken...
"Legislatures debate pilot programs for education of gifted children, sales of good products, and other consumer issues, all of which affect women because they affect the home. However, it's the men who are passing those laws," she said.
There is no doubt that the great Sarah Bernhardt was the most fabled theatrical personality of her time. For nearly 61 years she captured the world's theaters and left her audiences enchanted, even though toward the end she was a grotesquely overpainted, raddled old crone. Her memoirs and...
Non-Books & Osmosis. There are many first-rate novelists at work today whose output is read widely. O'Hara's books invariably become bestsellers. Bernard Malamud's The Fixer is sailing along profitably. Cheever, Updike, Steinbeck, Mailer, Bellow, Styron, all have ready audiences as well, despite the...
Probably-but among the gifted, where are the truly distinctive voices, let alone the great ones? Fiction writing-and reading-has declined over the years. Last year, $210,000 in fiction prizes went begging for want of suitable entries. "When I entered the business," says Cerf, "fiction outsold nonfiction five...