Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of these 19 stories exhale a cold horror for middle-class English life. As diagnoses of that horror they are sometimes subtle, brilliant, beautifully written; as often supersubtle, over-clever, strangled in preciosity. At best their sinister quality is superb; at worst they deal melodramatically with jilted servants, out-of-season hotels, loveless homes, other social and psychological frigidities so overused that they might almost people a 20th-century, air-conditioned Castle of Otranto. In her almost frantic straining after artistry, Miss Bowen often frustrates her first-rate talent. But she is one of few writers alive who comes...
...R.A.F. gave the British new hope. As the exploits grew in number, everyone from hod carrier to princess followed the heroes. As King George VI last week presented brilliant Squadron Leader Roland Tuck the second bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross-the first time this honor had been bestowed-His Majesty said: "I will be able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used...
...Rilke learned the gospel of hard labor. Paris, too, exerted an essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he so dreaded. Whenever he left Paris, he became the pet lamb of one great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris writing the New Poems (fourth-dimensional still lifes) and that semi-autobiographical symphony of fear, the Malte Laurids Brigge (Journal of My Other Self...
After reading the views of several of our brilliant psychiatrists, I have but one question to ask. Who let them...
Although the city was almost completely blacked out, the pilots, flying in at 3,000 feet, could see targets in the brilliant moonlight-piers against the light-flooded bay, the central part of the city flanking the Pasig River. Fortunately the pilots were friendly, the targets make-believe, the blackout a mere practice. But just the same this occasion last week was grim. This was the first simulated blackout of a city under the U.S. flag which seriously fears it may soon be bombed. The city: Manila...