Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald died at 44, in Christmas-week of 1940, he left behind a handful of brilliant novels and collections of short stories (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby) and an unfillable gap in the ranks of Postwar I's "lost generation." Wrote Novelist Glenway Wescott, "he was a kind of king of our American youth...
...Brooklyn's Dr. Edward Podolsky explains why epilepsy may be a spur to greatness. Epileptic fits result from a disturbed electrical equilibrium in the brain. Electrical energy continually piles up in the cortex (brain covering), is discharged at irregular intervals in fits. Many epileptics are nobodies, but the brilliant ones drive themselves like maniacs while the energy piles higher & higher...
...Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
Rugged, cleft-chinned Bishop Wand was a brilliant student at Oxford (he took a first-class in theology) and a chaplain in World War I. For eleven years, he was a tutor at Sarum Theological College; then he was recalled to Oxford as dean of Oriel College. In 1934, he became Archbishop of Brisbane...
...lobby billboard advertised "brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn." Across the nation, marquees blazed with titles like Red Hot Romance, Give Her Anything, The Fourteenth Lover. Hollywood was being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate and censorship bills were being pressed in 36 state capitols...