Word: giftedness
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Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the...
The only real waste that bothers Americans is not of material but of human resources. Lack of education for gifted children, the 24.9% of draftees rejected for "functional illiteracy" or other educational deficiencies, the victims of all kinds of diseases that could be cured or alleviated -these represent human waste...
One always wishes that Thornton Wilder were as intelligent as he is theatrically gifted. After his stagecraft enchants and grips you, you're left with the truisms and slightly awry profundity of his philosophy. He converts the theatre into a sympathetic, subtle medium and then ignores its potential to sermonize...
As a college teacher here, after having taught elsewhere, I am impressed by two qualities in New Yorkers. They are no more gifted-or less ignorant-than their peers elsewhere; yet they are certain that they must be. And they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against...
Gun Turrets to Mobiles. It took Rickey a long time to realize that he could use movement itself, as another artist might use colors, to create art. As a boy, he was gifted with a strong mechanical bent, perhaps inherited from his grandfather, who was a clockmaker, and his father...