Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocates an arbitrary line to be drawn between the sophomore and junior years of every college, as if to say "Here is born ambition, ability, and the will to learn". Only exceptional students would be admitted to the universities, which would carry on "graduate work" under the leadership of brilliant scholars. The average business man would thus acquire an education equivalent to that of a Harvard sophomore on probation. Similarly, Harvard's national scholarships are declared to be doomed, as the omnipotent junior colleges would become purely local institutions (of equal status and desirability, of course!) and the "inevitable tendency...
...years. Bolon fell wounded in the first month of the War. His patriotism dimmed by this experience, he deserted in August 1914. Ever since, implacable deserter-hunters of the French Sûreté Nationale have been on his trail. Deserter Bolon, however, had adopted the brilliant ruse of simply going home, never stirring out of his father's attic. Neighbors who have been in and out of his parents' house declared positively last week that none of them had seen him since...
...Proudly We Hail (by Joseph M. Viertel Shapiro; James R. Ullman, producer). Author Shapiro, 21, is the son of the proprietor of the French Casino, a Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents...
...become more and more radical while his friends like Walter Lippman grew steadily more reactionary. He was the only one of the brilliant New York group of pre-War liberals who actually went whole-hog for the Soviet experiment. His old mentor Lincoln Steffens bailed out on him, and at the news of his death Charles Townsend Copeland lamented his association with those awful Bolsheviks. John Reed is a legand, a fascinating legand. His story can stand retelling many times...
...mood of the play, and it is the way that she and her excellent support pronounce the Kaufman lines that is largely responsible for their success. The actors put the audience in a laughing disposition, which happily manages to tide one over the many barren stretches between the brilliant cracks...