His great-grandfather edited the Edinburgh Review, though literary aptitude seems to have dwindled down the generations until Empson's birth in 1906.
What's more, shuffleboard aptitude seems to increase with drink, unlike pool or darts.
He took his painting equipment along and as he painted, Barbara told him of her failure at day school in N.Y., about the aptitude tests given to her and their seeming bad results.
The Mooch, charting the difficult course of seeming hopeful about this Presidency without sounding like an outright cretin, demonstrated a tremendous aptitude for blandness.
Or if he actually seemed to have an aptitude for that kind of thing?
These two algorithms seem to have good aptitude for the foot-angle measurement problem, and would be good candidates for use in a long-term monitoring device for toe-walking assessment.
Since a grandfather had been a prominent mathematician at Reed College, and his father was an actuary who ended up running an insurance company, the source of Mr. Griffin's mathematical aptitude would seem obvious.
"They took anyone who seemed to have an aptitude for problem-solving skills — bridge players, chess players, even women," Lois Haibt, the Vassar graduate, recalled in an interview in 2000.
It is curious that the same people who are strong believers in genetic determinism don't seem to accept that aptitude is at least partly genetic, and think those who happen to be good at one thing over another deserve contempt, or should be expected to work for free until their late 20s.
Instead of looking upon Krishna's teaching as laying down alternative ways for different persons in accordance with their aptitudes, it would seem more logical to suppose that he taught the essential unity and interdependence of these ways.
Some people seemed to demonstrate low spatial aptitude because they were biased by the representation and adopted more difficult strategies.
