Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candid, highly' successful press conference, he mended Sir Ben's bad press relations by promising full advance information on food policies. Then he announced importations of a greater variety of foodstuffs, including long missed apples and oranges. Three days after taking office, Strachey made a brilliant speech in the House of Commons. "Famine, like peace, is indivisible . . ." he said. "This nation will play no small part in saving both itself and the world." As even the Tory press applauded, Britons swallowed his warning of bread and flour rationing, avoided during...
...rebound from Mosley carried him further left than he had ever been. Though he denies he was ever a Communist party member, he became the most brilliant apologist for the party line in the English-speaking world. A decade ago his Coming Struggle for Power was not the Communist bible, but it was, at least, the Book of Common Prayer of fellow travelers. In the U.S. he told an acquaintance: "Communism is really a movement for better plumbing...
...Last week, as he stepped up to receive the Passano award in Baltimore's historic Osler Hall of Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Ernest Goodpasture saw an opportunity to expound some theories about research developed in the years on the "Endless Frontier." In a philosophic, rambling and often brilliant address, he deplored the fact that researchers are too often hamstrung by special "projects," are not permitted to follow their own keen noses. Exploratory research, said he, entails relatively great financial risk, but these risks must be met if medicine is to serve humanity and not a social order...
Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the real thing...
...make room for the music, the Czech Parliament moved out of its marble-columned Rudolfinum building. To represent the U.S. in two programs, the Czechs invited Manhattan's brash, brilliant 27-year-old Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. For a week Bernstein, who speaks no Czech, waved an impatient baton at musicians rehearsing unfamiliar rhythms. At week's end sold-out houses heard a reasonable facsimile of more modern music than most U.S. concertgoers hear in a season...