Word: giftedness
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Out of a record number of 4,908 applications, Princeton University last week accepted only 1,165. Among the outstanding students who got in was Joseph David Oznot, son of a wealthy private detective from East Lansing, Mich. Oznot had been first in his class, a concert pianist, on the...
To hear some of them tell it, Johnson is a blindfold cinch. "He doesn't give me any trouble at all," says the Los Angeles Times's gifted Paul Conrad (TIME, Jan. 31), who accentuates what he calls the President's "dish face." The Chicago Sun-Times...
A PORTRAIT OF MANON (RCA Victor). Soprano Anna Moffo is ideally gifted to sing Manon-both Puccini's and Massenet's. In this two-LP collection of scenes from both operas, she enhances Puccini by shading and softening the music where it is too bold, then enriches Massenet...
Verse for the W.C. The many sides of Lewis emerge from his letters: exuberant promoter of the arts, gifted literary infighter, thin-skinned egotist, kindly teacher. Dashed off hurriedly and often in hot anger, the letters are no match for Lewis' best prose, but perhaps they better reveal the...
> Sociology is an enemy of the intelligence: "Among his friends and neighbors, there were brilliant and gifted people-he saw that-but many of them, also, were bores and fools, and he had made the mistake of listening to all of them with equal attention. He had confused a lack...