Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of a Crimson editorial printed last April, the appointment of Stanley Salmen as assistant to the Board of Advisers remodels Harvard's worst fitting garment into a streamlined gown of 1938 vintage and escapes once and for all the accusation that large university is a "leveler" which drags brilliant students down to the standards of the average...
When the ordeal of Midyears is over, he will be granted the power to place exceptionally brilliant Freshmen under a system of limited tutorial whereby they will make more rapid strides in their initial year than was formerly possible...
...John Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome...
...Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth, is making a brilliant marriage herself. At this point The Buccaneers breaks off. Mrs. Wharton's notes suggest that the governess was to sacrifice her own future to help Nan escape. That ending, however, would create almost as many difficulties...
...Gilded Age society in New York, where social maneuvers interweave with Wall Street plots and humble wives of new millionaires squat uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...