Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning sun was lacquering the China sky a brilliant red when the B-29 Superfortress Monsoon roared down the long runway. It seemed she would never get off. When the heavy-laden monster finally rose, the crew opened the hatch, only to see the ground still hugging them. Said a crewman, closing the hatch: "Maybe if we don't look it'll go away...
Competition Counts. So far this year, average daily attendance has been about 8.000 a game, a third higher than last year. The boom could probably be accounted for by the fact that in baseball close competition draws better than brilliant play. Talent had never been so weak and unpredictable, but neither had it ever been so evenly distributed...
...Novelist Edward Morgan Forster had written three books, brilliant, brittle as spun glass and about as nourishing as popcorn. Then he went to India with a Cambridge don, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, his friend and spiritual mentor...
...Indian Heart. Her only rival as an imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged his mighty expedition to the famed Marabar Caves he asked: "By the way, what is in these caves, brother? Why are we going to see them?"), Dr. Aziz tells U.S. readers more about the secret places of the Indian heart than any living Indian...
After 20 years, the celebrated scenes of A Passage to India-the eerie sunstroke episode in the caves, when Miss Quested imagines that Dr. Aziz has insulted her, the melodramatic trial, when she lets, the Empire down by refusing to bear false witness against him-seem less impressive; the brilliant characterizations, the religious and political insights, the atmosphere, more impressive. Much that once seemed stage setting now seems as live as a hand grenade. Sample: the jocular references to Japanese spies...