Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaatz already had his team - Doolittle and Twining - who had done the job for him in the European theater. He also had in Curt LeMay a brilliant tactical commander; LeMay's know-how in Pacific battle and B-29 operations had to be spread through the enlarged strategic air forces. So while LeMay's officers grumbled a bit at a good man and a crack leader being taken from tactical command, their black-browed boss was moved...
...more than a year a Free Japan Committee, organized along the lines of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, has been active in Yenan. The official name of the committee is the Japanese People's Liberation Alliance. Wrote brilliant Biographer Boris J. Nicolaevsky (Aseff the Spy) in Manhattan's socialist New Leader...
...brilliant prep school record Dodds competed in ten official races and won all with records in five. He went to Ashland College, receiving mail-order instruction from Hahn...
Wallace, pitching brilliant ball, retired the first 17 men in order without a hit. His fast ball and curve so completely fooled the opposing batters that ten of them went down swinging. Wallace gave another boost to his cause, and to his record, by blasting out a terrific home run in the third inning with nobody...
Edmund Wilson has chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived...