Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general staff, devised a brilliant strategy, sent the Russians stumbling back...
Unpretentious, friendly, brilliant Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr is Finance Minister of South Africa, heir apparent to 73-year-old Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Hofmeyr is also part owner of the Forum, South Africa's only liberal weekly. Last week the Forum's editor and Hofmeyr's protege, John Patrick Cope, pricked open two of the Union's deepest sores, proposed a radical cure...
...cutback, the truck shot (camera moving forward or backward), the fadeout, the fuzz-focused heroine's head which, esthetically, is Hollywood's chief inheritance from them. Some of their action sequences in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), together with many by their brilliant, neglected contemporary, Thomas Ince, have seldom been equaled, never surpassed...
...river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist's sketch, as soon as they are made...
...Team. Under Eisenhower, the invasion command is largely British. Wiry, brilliant Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder of Mediterranean air fame, is to be Deputy Supreme Commander-in effect the executive officer directing the entire massive campaign by land, sea and air. The Royal Navy's Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay will be chief of Allied Naval Forces; the R.A.F.'s Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, chief of Allied Tactical Air Forces...