Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised some. We picked him because that year he had "carried his country into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World, Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a woman-Wallis Warfield Simpson-and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...notable fact about Eisenhower's prediction is not that it was wrong, but that it was based on a complete confidence that the invasion would succeed. In retrospect, his brilliant success made it seem like much less of a gamble than it had seemed before June...
...enemy is making his supreme effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your brilliant victories of the summer and fall...
Died. Philip Guedalla, 55, best-selling British historian (The Second Empire, The Two Marshals, The Hundred Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium...
Little-known but skilled players create with extraordinary vigor and depth the portraits painted by the author. "The Hasty Heart" is a play of exceptional emotional import, of brilliant and careful character portrayal...