Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christian Buddenbrook. The brother of Thomas. At the age of seven a skillful mimic of Marcellus Stengel, his schoolmaster, he is pronounced "witty and brilliant" by Jean Jacques Hoffstede, the poet. He continues a skillful mimic to the end. But beyond that he accomplishes nothing?except to spend Buddenbrook money and to irritate the steadier Thomas...
...able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years. The last quality is what calls for superlatives. Every character in the book is exhibited to you brilliantly...
...entrants in the American Legion mile faced the starter's pistol, there were two Crimson representatives, Leo Ryan '26 and E. G. Haggerty '27. Neither of these were ever again within striking distance of Joie Ray who won in four minutes and 21 seconds. Haggerty put up a brilliant fight for third place and lost it only by inches...
Captain W. P. Dixon '25 was hard pressed in his first game with Ells, but thereafter played his most brilliant game and won comfortably 17-14, 15-10, 15-11. Harrington's experience was much the same. He barely nosed out his opponent Gilmore in the first game but gained in power as the match progressed, winning...
...somewhat difficult, the task of comparing the novel with the work of other college authors, without having read any of it, will doubtless appear more difficult still. And yet the mere fact that Mr. Cozzens, a sophomore in the University, has written a novel which is "competent and occasionally brilliant" is significant in itself. The University now has a young author whom it can place side by side with Mr. Fitzgerald of Princeton and Mr. Benet of Yale...