Word: talents
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...considered primarily a medical problem. But over the centuries the notion persisted that the mad were afflicted by God-and that along with this affliction went preternatural vision. The 19th century painter Richard Dadd had the fortune-as well as the misfortune-to embody the two definitions. His talent blossomed in an insane asylum. Yet his masterpiece, The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, combines Boschian mystery with Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy in a way that makes it clear Dadd was a prophet of Surrealism. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, Critic Edward Lucie-Smith declares: "No 20th century...
...London chemist, Dadd was born in 1817 and studied at the schools of the Royal Academy of Arts, where teachers cited him for his attention, good temper and diligence rather than for his talent. By the time he was 25, he had begun to paint canvases illustrating old English legends of the "little people"; these early canvases could have been produced by any competent illustrator. But during a trip to the Near East in 1842, Dadd began to have strange visions. After scaling the pyramids and strolling through bazaars, he wrote a friend, "I have lain down at night with...
This year's Yardling team has the dubious honor of following in the steps of Harvard's greatest freshman nine. Last season's squad went undefeated. Coach Kenneth Klug said, "We have the talent to win every ball game this year, too. It's a short season with fourteen games in just four weeks, so crazy things could happen, but we have a good all-around hitting team...
...Passes found out when he visibly and unflatteringly portrayed Hemingway in his novel Chosen Country. Hemingway spoke lividly of training his dogs and cats to "attack one-eyed Portuguese bastards." According to Baker, he called Scott Fitzgerald, who revered him, "a rummy and a liar with the inbred talent of a dishonest and easily frightened angel." Thomas Wolfe he rated as "a one-book glandular giant with the guts of three mice." Once he provoked a fight in a hotel dining room with William Saroyan, and when the poet Wallace Stevens, 20 years his senior, visited him on Key West...
...unfortunate way to open the Ivy League schedule for Harvard, a team with a good deal of talent but a score of injured players. Penn is not one of the top teams in the league, and the Crimson will have to come on strong during the rest of the season to finish high in the standings...