Word: giftedness
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If today the I.R.A. looms larger in the imagination than any other army in modern times, it is because imagination was always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By...
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet (TIME, June 23, 1961) and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family...
Tender Is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald's graceful, transparently self-descriptive story of a gifted young psychiatrist (Jason Robards Jr.) who gives up his career to get married makes a melancholy and affecting movie.
Szell came to the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, renowned as a greatly gifted Wagnerian conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and as a man with a monumental temper (his Met career ended when he walked out in midseason after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the...
Tender Is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald's graceful, transparently self-descriptive story of a gifted young psychiatrist who gives up his career to get married makes a melancholy and affecting movie. Jason Robards Jr. plays the hero.