Word: gifting
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...least one hopes so. Teenage skepticism--Holden Caulfield's bitter gift for discerning inconsistencies in the solemn pronouncements of adults--may be one of the troubling traits on the medicators' target list. A pill that tones down youthful b.s. detectors would certainly be a boon to parents and teachers, but how would it enrich the lives of teenagers? Even if such a pill improved their moods--helping them stick to their studies, say, and compete in a world with close to zero tolerance for unproductive monkeying around--would it not rob them (and the rest of us) of a potent...
Thursday night we rode the T downtown, simultaneously suspending our conversation as we emerged over the dark and glassy Charles and clicked across the Longfellow Bridge. As a belated Mother's Day gift we were going to see what turned out to be a quite racy production of the musical "Cabaret." It was perhaps not the ideal show to which to take one's mother, but I smiled in thinking how my sense of the boundary of indecency so strongly reflects my mom's influence...
According to McCartney, Boyd's linguistic gift as a political storyteller was closely connected to his "low key" nature...
...Boyd still carries out the same job he always did, using his gift with words to tell complicated stories with ease and simplicity. Fifty years after his last class in a Harvard hall, his lessons in language are still with...
...Boyd's gift with words found a much more practical outlet. Harvard may have taught Boyd about languages, but as a reporter, Boyd spent a career showing exactly how words are to be used, and what they are to be used...