Word: brilliants
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Director RenéClair won his first fame with a simple love story. Sous Les Toits de Paris, his second fame and third with brilliant satiric farragos, Le Million and A Nous La Liberté. July 14 is a simple love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night...
...Pollyana prize of the week, which is donated by Pollux and myself, goes this time to Sir Arthur Salter for his brilliant research work of the past few days, the result of which enables him to find a sound basis for optimism in the future of Europe because Germany has not renewed her claims to the Alsace-Lorraine strip. CASTOR
Wisely eschewing the eight-league boots of his predecessor, Professor Abbott has preferred the less brilliant and melodramatic methods of locomotion which have made him one of America's foremost historians. It is unfortunate that he conducts no course which would give us the benefit of his profound knowledge of the period of Cromwell and Charles II. It may be pertinent to observe that his general work, "The Expansion of Europe," which is neither so dull nor so momentous as the author of the alleged portrait supposes, enjoys a popularity in other countries, notably England, which is shared by very...
...practical fact of the matter is that football, as it is now conducted, has only two purposes: it represents an admirable source of income, and correspondingly, it is calculated to provide a brilliant spectacle for the spectator. Both of these purposes are thoroughly fulfilled by the Army game; football in general may be on a low level; but from the limit of that level, Army towers above all the teams on the Harvard schedule except Yale. The Bates game, for instance, is just as mercenary, much less commendable, and a good deal less interesting than the show provided...
...Church was not only the narrow way of salvation but the only road to knowledge. When Peter Abelard sought fame as a scholar he inevitably became a tonsured celibate. Within the frame of orthodox Catholic theology (once thought sufficient to contain the universe) Abelard was not only a brilliant scholar but a bold thinker. Envious' and less able enemies had maneuvered him out of one hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris...