Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Headquarters, Ike's Chief of Staff, trim, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, summed up the Ruhr victory: "The largest double envelopment in military history...
...production is competent but not brilliant; it is the drama itself that carries the audience along, rather than memorable portrayals or spectacular staging. Indeed, the very modesty of the Tributary Theatre's undertaking has kept it out of the pitfalls of over-production that have characterized some star-studded performances...
...race in which one horse surges ahead, then another, then another. But it was a race in which all the horses belonged to one stable - for the three armies hacking deepest into Germany, the U.S. Ninth, First and Third, all belonged to the 12th Army Group of quiet, brilliant General Omar Nelson Bradley...
Hanged for a Thought. Viennese Dr. Reik, whom Freud considered one of his most brilliant pupils (he is now a practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan), in general agrees with Goethe, who confessed: "There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable." Psychoanalysts, Reik observes, have a saying which means the same thing: "The girl was poor, but clean; her fantasies were the reverse." At one time or another, says Reik, nearly everybody has strong motives for murder. And courts habitually and unconsciously mistake the thought for the deed; ". . . many people have in fact been hanged for a thought...
...Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers turn out also to be a nest for some surprisingly virulent vipers; and much of their venom is good...