Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's group of brilliant, middleaged, aristocratic women writers, whose leading light is Virginia Woolf, six-foot Poet Edith Sitwell is the most backwardly brilliant of them all. Obscure in her poetry, subacid in her satire, she finds the 18th Century real, the present ghostly...
...Lowman, one of the League's high scorers last year, started the season off in brilliant form. Opposing guards were instructed to watch him closely with the result that Lowman's effectiveness dropped rapidly and at present he is far from top form. Due to his early season shooting, Lowman has a total second only to Herrick with 107 points, to these, 43 were made in league competition. At present Fesler has been replacing Lowman with either Arnie Litman or Fred Heckel until he breaks out of his slump...
...Folklore of Capitalism," by Thurman Arnold, is a brilliant and useful book. Its essential point has been stated by Justice Brandeis but the atmosphere of the court did not permit him to say it so wittily or with so many challenging paradoxes...
...spite of the brilliant defeat of Intercollegiate title holder Ross Schaffer by Captain Johnnie Harkness, a revitalized Varsity wrestling squad dropped a 17-11 decision to Penn State on the victor's mats Monday...
Compared with his first novel, Starting Point shows a marked improvement-its theme is more mature, its prose less fluttery. Its four central characters are Oxford roommates: Theodore, a small, plump, precocious, post-Huxleyan cynic; effeminate, peace-loving Henry; John, a shy, radical, brilliant science student; and Anthony, popular, versatile, idealistic son of a rich, liberal M. P. The time...