Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curved balls [TIME, April 22]: when John B. Stanchfield, a brilliant New York lawyer, was a college student away back in the '70s, he stood close to the wall of a college building exactly the same distance from the corner of the building as the distance from the pitcher's slab to home plate. With a doubting professor of physics right behind him, Stanchfield took his wind-up and pitched. As the ball reached the end of the building it disappeared around the corner...
...brilliant night life was forthwith blacked out. Three million-dollar establishments in the capital-the Urea, Atlantico and Copacabana-shut down...
...Palooka, Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...
...definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy paucity of source materials enables Trotsky to draw the same kind of brilliant character surmises, inferences and conclusions that he improvised (in his History of the Russian Revolution) from some scraps of Czar Nicholas II's journal. From it the young Stalin emerges as a parochial presence of lurking and furtive evil...
...failures of Trotsky's Stalin is that he cannot admit one staring fact: Stalin won what Trotsky somewhat grandly calls "the grand polemic," because a majority of the Communist Party sensed instinctively that the nature of Stalin embodied, far more than the more brilliant Trotsky, something deep in the nature of Communism itself...