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Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.
In a later chapter dealing with the suburban school, I shall discuss the importance of arranging a program for the academically talented and highly gifted youth in any high school where he is found.
Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.
Now there is no reason in the world why a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play.
The Cimmerian is a talented fighter, but his travels have given him vast experience in other trades, especially as a thief ; he is also a talented commander, tactician and strategist, as well as a born leader.
He is a talented artist, and has worked on the Captain America comic book published in the Marvel universe.
He is highly talented in devising equipment for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers.
In his book The American Cinema, Andrew Sarris wrote, " is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making ... may be heard from more decisively in the future.
Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.
Mattie, while talented, is naïve and apparently somewhat unstable ; she has an apparent electra complex and declares that she will only refer to Urquhart as ' Daddy ', a word that later figures prominently in Urquhart's painful flashbacks of her.
Athena's beauty is rarely commented in in the myths, perhaps because Greeks held her up as an asexual being, being able to " overcome " her " womanly weaknesses " in order to become both wise and talented in war ( both considered male domains by the Greeks ).
Higher education is an imperfect meritocratic screening system for various reasons, such as lack of uniform standards worldwide, lack of scope ( not all occupations and processes are included ), and lack of access ( some talented people never have an opportunity to participate because of the expense, most especially in developing countries ).
Although most agree that Singapore's economic success has been due in part to its strong emphasis on developing and promoting talented leaders, there are signs that an increasing number believe that it is instead becoming an elitist society.
A talented singer, Claris ' ambition is to perform on stage.
The incident is reported in George Gamow's book: " Thirty years that shook physics " where it is also claimed the effect to be stronger as the theoretical physicist is more talented.
Lang later recounted how humbled Orbison had been by the show of support from so many talented and busy musicians: " Roy looked at all of us and said, ' If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call on me.
Beverly is also a talented dancer, having won trophies for her performances in the past.
What I've found out and what I believed is that everybody is talented.

is and violinist
The violinist, in particular, is very indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy.
In any case, Beethoven was not to blame, as violinist Josef Böhm recalled: " Beethoven directed the piece himself ; that is, he stood before the lectern and gesticulated furiously.
Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler.
* Louis Spohr ( 1784-1859 ), the 19th-century composer and violinist, who is commemorated by a museum in the city.
The youngest daughter is Ann, a violinist.
David Mansfield ( born September 13, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States ) is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer.
Mary Lea Park, adjacent to the Rockport Opera House, is named in honor of both her and Rockport resident and violinist Lea Luboshutz.
Ma's elder sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, who was also born in Paris, is a violinist married to Michael Dadap, a New York – based guitarist from the Philippines.
The latter, Italian, spelling is now used almost universally when referring to the violinist – even on reissues of his early work.
Tasmin Little, OBE ( born 13 May 1965 ) is an English classical violinist.
Pieter Schoeman, violinist who has studied under Sylvia Rosenberg and Eduard Schmieder, is the orchestra's current concertmaster.
It is also performed in the ‘ Cois Tine-Stories of Liam O ' Flaherty ’-by singer and violinist Fionnuala Howard.
There is a compact disc of one made by the violinist Alfredo Campoli which is taken from acetates of a French radio broadcast ; these are thought to date from early in 1939.
Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish.
Solo violinist Diana Yukawa ( ダイアナ湯川 ) is a relative of Hideki Yukawa.
It is given to people eminent in the field of classical music ; they have almost always been composers ( George Frederick Anderson was one exception ; he was a violinist who is not known to have ever composed any music ).
Georgy's flatmate is her so-called best friend, the beautiful Meredith ( Charlotte Rampling ), who works as a violinist in an orchestra, but is otherwise a shallow woman who lives for her own hedonistic pleasures.
The violinist Isaac Stern and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber both recorded instrumental versions of " Bess, You is My Woman Now ".
Since 1989, it is helmed by the Russian violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov.
The Belcea Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 1994, under the leadership of violinist Corina Belcea.
The Petersen Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair with Conrad Muck.

is and when
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.
The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.
but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.
It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

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