Word: giftedness
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The reason for the dispersion is higher standards at the Big Three schools and more scholarships for gifted poor boys. Bright scholars have driven out dull scions. As one result, says Hawes, the country is getting "a new set of socially desirable colleges that has some of the flavor of...
Since his opera Peter Grimes brought him to world prominence (TIME cover, Feb. 16, 1948), Britten has turned out a varied and impressive body of work, including nine other operas, a ballet, and everything from songs to symphonies, Masses to metamorphoses. Beyond composition, his talents sparkle with equal virtuosity. He...
Snows & Saints. In poetry, Evgeny Evtushenko, 30, is still the major voice, and has taken the brunt of the backlash that followed his first outspoken poems. But nowadays Evtushenko's reputation is being matched by that of Andrei Voznesensky, 30, more gifted and only slightly less flamboyant ex-student...
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his...
Ninety-eight years later, Critic Edmund Wilson, the most gifted and eloquent expositor of Marxism the U.S. ever produced, failed to file an income tax return. He went on failing to file right up to 1955, when he got around to opening financial conversations with the U.S. Government. In the...