Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Winston Churchill and the rest of the War Cabinet remained silent, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful newspapers began taking pot shots at Sir Stafford. Wrote the Evening Standard's brilliant, liberal editor Frank Owen: "Cripps had better get off that 'it-all-depends-on-you' theme. . . . We have had enough appeals to self-sacrifice. What the nation needs is not appeals but orders...
Again the brilliant moonlight after...
...personal: some historians, like Cornell's brilliant Carl Becker, refused to broadcast...
Author Tomlinson (The Sea and the Jungle, Gallions Reach) is a writer with a very simple mind, almost tactile vision, and a somewhat self-conscious style that is widely considered good prose. A brilliant war correspondent in 1914-17, he grew to hate war so bitterly that he wrote Mars His Idiot, one of the anti-war books that helped disarm Britons psychologically between World Wars...
Feuchtwanger historical novels are constructed with the bellying bigness of the Coliseum, are as crammed with characters as the benches of the arena at lion-feeding time. A smart literary tradesman, Feuchtwanger dresses up his vast windows on the past with a brilliant, meticulous reconstruction of Roman society in the iridescent stages of dissolution. His characters he treats with a superior irony which his devotees deeply admire, but in which others sometimes resent a rather rabbinical roguishness...