Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women Who Hate & Follow. She did not attain her power as Lupescu did, nor in the way the suffragettes dreamed of in Ana's youth. She came up through 30 fighting years in the Communist Party, to which she contributed great courage and a good, if not brilliant mind. Her chief offering, however, was a blind loyalty which stood every test, including the party's purge of her husband...
Louis Quatorze grew bored with minuets; so he started a school of ballet, in 1661. Voltaire himself had sighed over the first ballerinas ("Ah, Camargo! How brilliant you are! But, great gods, how ravishing is also Sallé!"). Ever since, Parisians have gone ga-ga over their Paris Opera Ballet...
...Brilliant & Bold. What would Chicagoans see when the great dusty-rose curtain goes up this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes...
...Generation to School. Beard's influence spread beyond his colleagues, the historians. During the '20s, with his wife Mary, he wrote a brilliant and provocative survey history of the U.S., The Rise of American Civilization. The book became a standard work in U.S. schools and colleges. A whole generation of Americans learned their U.S. history in Uncle Charlie's school...
Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...