Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant successes of [Mendes-France's] improvised diplomacy are well known. France has returned to a policy of national Realpolitik on the prewar model, with opportunism its only principle and immediate national advantage its only aim. For those other European nations that have survived the last great attempt at this sort of Realpolitik in the Hitler years, nothing remains except to follow France more or less unwillingly along this path. Perhaps anything is better than the continuation of a mendacious abnegation of responsibility. The "new style" of French diplomacy has the advantage of honesty. Europe has lost nothing...
...Brilliant & Bitter. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, 57, is an Indian who has lived more than half his life as an Englishman; a Western-trained intellectual who distrusts and hates the West; a passionate foe of old-style imperialism whose histrionic talents and glib tongue more often than not give aid to the new imperialism of Communism. He ostentatiously preaches humility and tolerance, but some of his colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile...
...himself. A friendly rugged six footer with a trace of a West Virginia drawl, he has a background of knowledge and experience to accompany his personality, and a familiarity with books that allows him to indulge in quoting Dostoevsky, Ortega y Gasset, or Gordon Allport. He was termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young men under the worst forms of stress...
...Koestler was writing that novel, Walter Krivitsky, ex-head of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe, was writing a factual account of how a false confession had been extracted from a real-life Old Bolshevik. Koestler cites Krivitsky's eerie, almost-word-for-word confirmation of his own brilliant intuition of why "Rubashov" confessed...
JULI ETTA, translated by Alison Brothers (147 pp.; Messner; $3), is a contrasting companion piece from the same perfumed pen. It is a moony, brilliant bit of boy-meets-girlishness, more or less what might have happened if Stendhal had been writing for Sam Goldwyn. The ideal cast: Gary Grant, Gene Tierney and Audrey Hepburn. The plot: Tierney, a high-fashion cutie, comes for a visit at the country house of Grant, her fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney...