Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Perry seeks practical applications for his conclusions on democratic ideals, he is rewarded by a keen insight into the cause and effect of events. One of the most brilliant passages in "On All Fronts" examines the place of faith in morale and demonstrates their interdependence with force and clarity...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor (Vladimir Horowitz, with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). The piece which most people know (from its opening themes) as Tonight We Love, Concerto for Two, etc., gets a brilliant recording, with "The Old Man" driving his Son-in-law Horowitz and the orchestra without mercy...
...Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained a brilliant salon in Paris frequented by Anatole France, Debussy, Rodin, Mallarme, many another famed artist. She came to the U.S. in 1912, toured in Pelleas and Melisande, was perhaps more famed for her clothes than for her soprano voice, was most famed for the romantic legend of her role as "Mme. Maeterlinck...
Near the end of the first half, brilliant Bruce Smith, 200-lb. triple-threat, got off a 78-yd. punt, then threw a 43-yd. forward pass that put Minnesota on Michigan's 5-yd. line. Smith was injured on the next play, but his teammates scored for a 7-to-0 lead that the Wolverines were unable to budge. It was Minnesota's eighth successive victory over Michigan. More impor tant, Minnesota is now in a place where, if it gets by Northwestern this week, it should beat its remaining opponents (Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin), should deserve...
Most epileptics who are in institutions are of below normal intelligence. But many of those who are out in the world, according to Dr. Erickson's wife. Psychologist Mary Rachel Harrower-Erickson, are brilliant, ambitious, successful. The old notion of an "epileptic personality," distinguished by lying, cheating, selfishness, cruelty, is false. If their brain damage is not too severe, epileptics are just like other people...