Along with stellar names like Bellows, Hassam, Henri, Prendergast, Mary Cassatt, Lilla Cabot Perry, John Singer Sargent, Julian Alden Weir and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, this show includes much weaker talents.
Fifty years after his political début, his imitators — weaker talents all — offer not a choice, to paraphrase Phyllis Schlafly, but a perpetual echo.
There were those who felt all along that Kelly, strong on desire but weak on talent, would pose little challenge.
Turns out it's pretty weak, but the talent on display kept me happy.
But the current freshman class has been particularly weak, hurting the overall talent level in the game.
With a Yankees-like payroll, it will continue to be able to steal the best talent from weaker firms that still have TARP money and are subject to restrictions on pay and the like.
As ways of enhancing the talent on weaker teams and keeping wealthy teams from gobbling up the best amateur players, the report also advocated a worldwide draft of amateur players, changes in the existing drafts of amateur and minor league players, allowing the trading of draft choices and elimination of compensation picks for lost free agents.
For months, N.B.A. scouts and draft analysts have maligned the 2011 class as weak, unproven, bereft of elite talent and altogether uninspiring.
But in a grassroots environment in which presently one-in-three referees walks away from the game every year, it's hard to aggressively expand the top-tier talent from such weak foundations.
Most of the weaker teams have improved their talent.
