Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt themselves to their age. Its most brilliant misfits, they invented time and place of their own in which to live and work...
Porgy and Bess. Brilliant revival of Gershwin's warm, Negromantic folk opera (TIME...
...credit to TIME'S brilliant correspondent Jack Belden for the thrilling report on "Tex" Hill [TIME, Aug. 3]. But he might have drawn a truer picture of Texas' David Lee Hill had he known more of the blood that courses in his veins...
...Robust young women in drab auxiliary service uniforms walked arm in arm with young soldiers whose tunics were splashed with large and brilliant enameled medals. In the Park of Culture and Rest, a mélange of uplift, Coney Island and sylvan charm, family groups sat quietly under the lime trees on rest days. At the ballet Mmes. Lepeshinskaya and Cherkasova fluttered back on their points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly...
What's Wrong with Demos? Diagnosis is often half the cure, and some of Editor Carr's most brilliant chapters are strictly diagnostic. He believes that erstwhile "liberal democracy" (the kind in which most U.S. and British citizens imagine they still live) is being replaced by "mass democracy." Mass democracy is distinguished by overwhelming popularity and prestige of the chief executive (Roosevelt, Churchill); by the growing weakness of Congress or Parliament; by a tendency of the executive and the masses to interact directly via radio and straw polls over the heads of electoral bodies...