Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, Mich, upon its expiration this month. Although I am nominally at least a Republican, your waste of two or three pages in each issue discussing the favorite colors of Mrs. Coolidge, President Coolidge's colds and indisposition, and such drivel is sickening. Also many of your brilliant ( ?) descriptions of world personages, governmental actions, scientific observations, and the like are evidently written by somebodies or nobodies who are anxious to get in the spotlight by using belittling descriptions, large and unfamiliar words, and other such silly devices. There are some good points in the magazine, also some excellent pieces...
...Born at Florence in 1469 at the apogee of Florentine glory under Lorenzo de Medici ("The Magnificent"), Niccolo Machiavelli remains the most celebrated commentator on the brilliant and ruthless statesmanship of the Borgia, Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims...
...perhaps ever been more brilliant, more permiated with life and power than the Italian Renaissance, and no man among all the great men of the time, was more gifted than Leonardo da Vinci...
...however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than profound. The excellence of the film lies in its beauty, its brilliant visualization of fantasy...
...Marche Hongroise is what might be expected from one who was not a romanticist but romanticism itself. IT is a theme taken from an old Hungarian war song which Berlioz incorporated into the Domination of Faust making of it one of the most brilliant of orchestral pieces...