Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK-Brilliant fantasy of the eternal struggle between art and commercialism...
...whole teaching profession and most universities are "under the thumb of bigoted capitalists." It is a fact, so stated by Bertrand Russell. This brilliant English mathematician, again lecturing in America on social questions, has an international reputation for his willingness to discuss anything at any time on any evidence. His recent book on China is embellished by more errors than it was hitherto thought possible to squeeze into a single volume...
...administration, competition with Jay Gould and legislative attack; he also had serious doubts as to the advisability of one man's having as much money and power as he had. Accordingly, he sold control of the system to a banking syndicate headed by the then rising and brilliant young banker, J. P. Morgan. Practically ever since, the road has been financed by the Morgan group...
Almost simultaneously with the English Mr. Bridges arrived the brilliant Bertrand Russell who is said already to have discovered many corruptions on our shores; and to be retiring shortly to his native heath without much investigation. All this is a tremendous aid to Anglo-American amity. Personally, we favor sending our own Robert Bridges to teach the court of St. James that there are human, charming, gentlemanly literary men still left in a somewhat overcrowded profession...
...Confusion," a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment of life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves air extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...