Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major peacetime difficulty is deciding who will be brilliant commanders in war. In peacetime the Navy wants men who will run an efficient Navy. In wartime efficiency is not enough: the premium is on the man of originality, resourcefulness, quickness of mind. That sort of man is penalized by the Navy's peacetime promotion system. In the Navy, as in any established institution, orthodoxy is comfortable, safe, comparatively lucrative; while the historic commanders were men who flouted the rulebooks of their day-a fact which tends to escape the "battleship admirals...
...writers. He can be as funny as Mark Twain, as exalted as Melville, as solid as Joyce and as dull as Dreiser; but he has never done a book which has the sure, sound permanence of any of these men. Go Down, Moses, like most of Faulkner, is brilliant and uneven. Its special value is its evocative (though local) exploration of the U.S. national source and dawn. In it is a sometimes merely yeasty, sometimes 100-proof sense of those powers and mysteries of land and the people on it which make a nation...
...sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation, obviously not very exciting, is not helped by numerous inconsistencies in the writing. Parts of it are excellent, particularly those between the teacher and her pupil, and the scene where the serving girl attempts to seduce the student. But at other times incongruous...
Except for the dimming of outside lights with shields and the permanent extinguishing of the brilliant illumination in the House towers, no action will be taken. However, more details of the plan are being issued today; and, should the situation require, instructions will be issued to the students...
...There has-been a show-down," Kirkland Housemaster Walter Eugene Clark, '03 curtly revealed last night, "and the spring formal will go on as planned." This proclamation came on the heels of an announcement made last week that unless the sinners who painted the sacred sundial a brilliant shade of crimson confessed, he would call off the spring dance...