Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carmen Jones. Brilliant, all-Negro jamboree modernizing Carmen's story without meddling with its score (TIME...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...
Soon after Victorian England's great Poet Laureate died in 1892, the younger generation began discrediting his work. 'I felt a wave of shame," admitted Critic Harold Nicolson, "at having ever admired anything so smug and insincere. . . ." In the giddy 1920s scarcely any of the brilliant young critics or poets doubted that Alfred, Lord Tennyson was The Forgotten Poet, and deservedly...
...Germans had put on a brilliant performance in the battle of supply. They ceased to threaten the port of Antwerp last week (see below), but for two months they had stood off the British and Canadians on its approaches. They had ruined Le Havre, Marseille, Salonika. Hundreds of miles behind the main battle line, they still had no less than 100,000 troops in Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Lorient, the Channel Islands, and Royan (covering Bordeaux). Where German soil was threatened, they fought like wildcats...
...Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Louis Des-touches) prewar Fascist and one of France's most brilliant novelists, (Journey to the End of the Night), wrote virulent, anti-Semitic articles for the Nazis. He was turned down when he applied for German citizenship, but Parisians guess he is now in Germany...