Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile to New York's Belmont race track went the alltime greatest crowds. the carriage trade, lush with furs and brilliant with jewels; fashion models, dressed carefully to provoke envy in the thousands who came in merely their best clothes (see p. 63). It was all very much like the race meet at Auteuil, in the suburbs of Paris, in the spring of 1940, when Parisian couturiers worried about the proper cut and color for gas-mask containers. Shut Out whipped Alsab in the famed Belmont Stakes, and Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier...
...opposite page, alas, we see a dreary, lamentable series of failures, nearly all avoidable and almost entirely due to bad strategy and haphazard planning at the top. Churchill, the brilliant rhetorician, Churchill, the astute politician, is akin in spirit to the fabled comedian who eats his heart out longing to star in tragic roles. He has always fancied himself in a martial capacity, for which his particular brilliant attainments are unsuited...
This compact, brilliant critical biography is 1) an excellent life of Walt Whitman, 2) a just, if merciless, evaluation of him as poet, mystic and prophet of democracy, 3) an arduous, provocative sermon on the nature and responsibility of democracy and of art. Unlike most Whitman critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved...
...nine game schedule this fall, opening with the North Carolina Naval Aviation cadets in the Stadium and following with eight other major league opponents. Outmanned as Harvard appears to be in almost every encounter, there should still be several victories. A fighting Crimson squad directed by the brilliant Dick Harlow will attend to that matter...
Doctor of Letters, Citation: "For nearly half a century a brilliant teacher of the Romance Languages in Harvard University: the learned world has long recognized the preeminence of his scholarship...