It happened on Hydra, the Aegean island just a hydrofoil hop from Athens where Johnston lived for almost a decade with his wife, Clift, a writer of comparable talent (if not quite acknowledged as such during her lifetime) and their three children, and where he created what remains, 50 years later, a totem of Australian literature.
If the Giants determine there is a horde of players with comparable talent, they could trade down.
Brown said Clinkscales, who is fighting for a spot on the Steelers' 45-man roster, has comparable talent to Anthony Hancock, Willie Gault, Clyde Duncan and Tim McGee, Tennessee's recent first-round draft choices.
The Lyric program, which featured finely expressive singing by Ying Huang, also contained two songs by Fanny Hensel, the composer's sister, who possessed comparable talent but was forced to give up a musical career in favor of marriage and motherhood.
As a journalist Ms. Steavenson has a gift for detail and character, and a strong sense of place; "The Situation," alas, shows no such comparable talent.
But the Jays have traditionally received comparable talent when trading prominent players, raising the possibility that the Mets could send a starter like Glendon Rusch to Toronto.
"Six Feet Under" has no actors of remotely comparable talent, no actors who can even begin to animate the stick-figure parts.
That is because the Blue Devils (32-5) will be the first team with comparable talent that the Bears (28-7) have faced in the tournament.
At the same time, the Los Angeles Dodgers, pursued by outright hatred from Brooklyn for being the alleged instigators of the move to California, won five World Series while the Giants failed, often with comparable talent.
In mid-career, at the point where everyone brings comparable talent to the table, it's who you know, not what you know, that gets you promoted.
