Word: giftedness
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- RECOMBINATION. An example: A Negro elementary school can be turned into a junior high school serving a wider area, or into a school for gifted or retarded children, while the original pupils are sent to other schools.
"You've Got to Cut Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to...
Shaw could be even more malicious to "the terrible Charlotte" herself. In an unsolicited bit of analysis, he once wrote her that she was "the lier-in-wait, the soul hypochondriac, always watching and dragging me into bondage, hating me and longing for me with the absorbing passion of the...
Under the capable baton of James Paul the 24-piece orchestra was all that one could ask for. Maestro Paul (Cape Cod's answer to Arthur Fiedler) is a highly gifted if somewhat flamboyant conductor. His tautly controlled dynamics in the ghost scene were particularly impressive.
As it has with many another traveler before him, being a tourist brought out the worst in Michel Butor. A gifted disciple of French antinovelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (TIME, July 20, 1962), Butor is notable because he uses a different technique with every book and turns out intense and interesting...