Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mournful Countenance, however, detects a slight, wanders off once more to joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled...
...speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller, who had nothing to do with the bank except that his father John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is its biggest stockholder and his uncle heads its board of directors...
...partisan attempt to paint Grant with whitewash bright and glistening. Biographer McCormick lays it on thick but his able brushwork does bring out the sturdy lines of his hero's dingy figure. Grant, like his 15-year senior, Lee, served in the Mexican War, but his no less brilliant accomplishments were overlooked, says McCormick. Shortly afterward he resigned from the army, under the accusation of intoxication while paying off troops. His belligerent biographer does not admit the truth of the charge, denies that Grant ever drank more "than any number of successful men in and out of military life...
...banquet was stuffingly delicious, the histrionics were funny to the serious and hilarious to those in the mood, the dance was long, loud and swell, the company brilliant, comely and congenial in the Dunster manner. Although the less progressive Dunsterites had feared that the mixture of Christmas party (heretofore utterly a stag affair) and dance might not set too well even the most misogynistic were forced to admit that Henry Dunster's House had a roaring fine party Wednesday night...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND HIS AMERICA ?Joseph Dorfman?Viking ($3.75). In his lifetime (1857-1929) Thorstein Bunde Veblen had a few devoted disciples and a reputation as a brilliant eccentric among his fellow-sociologists, but he was not even a name to the U. S.-at-large.* When "Technocracy" flashed in its pan (1932), its brief publicity lit up Veblen's name by reflection, brought him a posthumous and garbled notoriety. But his reputation did not sputter out with Technocracy. Author Dorfman's detailed and scholarly book is the first full-length study of Thorstein Veblen and his views...