Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales: $1.5 billion). He is a brilliant administrator who has been an oilman for his entire career. Born and educated in Texas, he received a graduate degree in chemical engineering from M.I.T. in 1940 and joined Gulf...
Traces and refinements of all those influences are still present in her work, but she unites them with carefree ease, as if the connections were there before she made them. Her humor is startling and raucous, but always purposeful. The comedy complements, never contradicts, the brilliant brute force of her movie...
...lunch with the shooters in tweeds, had tea in pink tea-gowns from Paris, and dined in still more gorgeous brocades and velvets." Throughout her life, Lady Morrell sought intensity--through mysticism in her youth and old age, and, in between, through a network of relationships with brilliant artists. Unable to find a satisfactory outlet for her own creative energy, she compensated for her failure by living vicariously what she called their "experiences of the soul...
Until a goodly swatch of Forman's writing is actually published, that assertion lacks underpinning. What Rowse does show beyond question is that Forman was an invaluable eyewitness to his superstitious yet brilliant era. Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society. Titled ladies, including the Countess of Essex and Somerset, consulted him. So did churchmen, merchants, seafarers, servants and prostitutes. A grandson of Thomas More was one of his clients, as were...
Riesman has much more sympathy for the "dazzlingly brilliant" members of group number one who have opted for law or medical school instead of trying to make it in scholarship or art. It's what he calls the "who little me? syndrome," where students think that by taking their aspirations down a peg, they are not being "arrogant or hubristic." He blames the trend in part on the "anti-elitist, egalitarian wave of the 60's as it survives into the 70's." Such students elect these careers, Riesman says, "as if to say, "I can't salve myself that...