Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Riesman's brilliant account of evolution of mankind into "other-directeds" [TIME, Sept. 27] is perhaps the reason and cause for the super-mediocrity of most people, most jobs, most professions, even most autonomous...
...Sheen "Uncle Fultie"]. Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx are eminent in Sheen's hierarchy of devils. Sheen remarked that, 'I have read every single line that Karl Marx ever wrote. I took a year off to study him.' His discourse on Marx and Communism was so brilliant that the editor had the sense of looking into a machine gun firing tracer bullets...
...Martians were, anything but standardized. One who stopped M. Roger Barrault near the town of Lavoux had brilliant eyes, an enormous mustache, wore rubbers and spoke Latin. Another asked M. Pierre Lucas, a Breton baker, for a light. He was bearded and had a single eye in the middle of his forehead. M. Lucas could not remember what language he spoke...
...when he was 22, Taubes published a study of philosophies of history since Augustine. Scholars praised his initial work, and among them Carl J. Friedrich described it as an extraordinarily brilliant books for one of his age to write, and one which I should be proud to have written...
...exchange students who was soon leaving for the U.S. After she politely explained to him that Biblical language is no longer used, ("How was I to know it was archaic?" said Taubes) she described a friend it was archaic?" said Taubes) she described a friend of hers who was "brilliant and beautiful, and locked herself in the library at night to study." Taubes arrived in American and met an American girl to whom he was soon engaged. When he told the exchange student that he was engaged to a Bryn Mawr girl Susan Anima, "she nearly fainted," said Taubes...