Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrade Stalin." The chairman intoned a Soviet litany: "[We] nominate the true continuer of the cause of Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the might of our he "land, the organizer and inspirer of the historic victory over Fascist Germany and Imperial Japan, the brilliant Army leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." The press pitched into the campaign. One day Pravda would report that American women were being forced into prostitution by unemployment, the next day it would prove authoritatively that the Soviet was "the only real people's government in the world...
...from Pugwash. To match its whoop-de-do student body, U.B.C. has a robust president. He is Dr. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, a bootstrap scholar, brilliant organizer and a man who gets what he wants. When Ottawa phoned one day last fall giving permission to use abandoned Army huts on the campus, "Larry" MacKenzie chuckled: he had carted them off and put them on campus some weeks before...
Until a year ago its leader was President Boleslaw Bierut, 54, a veteran Communist, who now, because of his official position, adopts an air of aloofness towards rough-&-tumble politics. Currently, the party's most brilliant performer is Industry Minister Hilary Mine (rhymes with quince), 41, a blond, bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about...
...Newcomer. Australia had reason to be cocky. Though brilliant Adrian Quist was a little past his peak and suffering from recurrent asthma, two-fisted Jack Bromwich was better than ever. Aussie ace in the hole: a 24-year-old wonder who sometimes plays barefoot, named Dennis ("Dinny") Pails...
Outstanding among the present collection of ten paintings are the brilliant and exciting "Harlequin's Carnival," the naive "Birds and Insects," with its cheerful blue background, and the mysterious and suggestive "Composition...