Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this research with his examination of the unpublished Freud papers of Ernest Jones, many of which had been ignored when Jones wrote his praise filled three-volume biography. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. The result is a portrait not of a legend, but of a man, both brilliant and stubbornly dogmatic. Roazen's Freud shows a sense of humor as well as a vindictive determination to humiliate former pupils whose loyalty wavered, a longing for scientific respectability mixed with a periodic fascination with the occult. Freud never seems less than a genius, but he becomes a very human...
...knows Lime has been mixed up in a vicious black market in penicillin, and Martins undertakes the job of clearing his friend's name and finding his real murderer. Since most mysteries are set in a modern city like Los Angeles or in remote, isolated countryside. Graham Greene's brilliant choice of postwar Vienna is especially impressive--it manages to combine the two; the rootless, warrenlike atmosphere of a metropolls and the underlying terror of long reaches of barren scenery. The Third Man is a film in which the detective story remains entirely secondary. Holly Martins is just as much...
...sure, Chou has needed every bit of that adroitness to survive for some four decades as chief of staff to a notoriously headstrong, frequently whimsical and incontestably brilliant commander. More than once, Mao has set Sinologists to puzzling over a sudden switch in policy or a seemingly inexplicable action. Last week he had them at it again. Why had he been absent from both the Central Committee plenum and the Congress? "I did a double take when I read the communiqué-the lack of Mao was so striking," said one senior U.S. Government analyst. "We are so used...
Between a brilliant and a safe man, he thought, parties would invariably mediocrity," choose the thought safe. Bryce; "The he likes a ordinary voter President does to not be object to sensible, vigorous and magnetic, but "does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity or a wide knowledge. Great men are not in quiet times absolutely needed...
...raises his hand and says, "I think we should talk more about why we want to have a union. We haven't talked about this enough. Nobody's really said why we want a union. There's even some people who aren't here." The speech is hardly a brilliant stroke of organizing strategy; these meetings are supposed to be anything but long self-explanatory sessions. Schroder and Van Delft start to whisper and shuffle papers and the secretaries, their lunch hours almost over, shift in their seats and begin to get up to leave. The young man gives imploring...