Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand gun salute to that brilliant Princeton brain which conceived the idea of organizing the Veterans of Future Wars, and the short-lived sister organization, the Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars (TIME, March...
...example of exhibition building, the Gauguin show is even better than the van Gogh show. Forty-nine canvases from 25 different collections give the whole story of Gauguin's artistic development, from his pseudo-Monet landscapes of Brittany, done in the 1870's, through the brilliant stalwart nudes of Tahiti, for which the world remembers him, to the nostalgic view of France, painted in the Marquesas in the last years of his life when his eyesight was nearly gone and his feet were rotting away with chronic eczema...
...second matter recommends itself to those interested in sociology. The work done particularly by graduate students, is generally of high caliber. Yet, unlike most departments, Sociology has little or no opportunity to attract brilliant students with scholarships and fellowships or to forward useful work already in progress. Attention should be directed to diverting some of the influx of graduate scholarship funds into sociological channels...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
Like William Fox, Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky, Lewis J. Selznick and the rest of his picturesque competitors, Uncle Carl Laemmle was a brilliant showman. What other qualifications he had to run a major cinema company sometimes seemed mysterious. But for a long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl...