Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budge form the assertion that none of the modern greats correspond in ability to those of the past. "When there are no fish, a crawfish is a fish," he says. "I am a crawfish." Yet he has doubled the size of Harvard's Sociology Department, attracted a brilliant group of graduate students, and has probably written as many books in his field as any man in history. Although he scorns the "sensational, vulgar, misleading, and distorting press," he manages to cull yearly as much publicity as the average Hollywood starlet...
...troops are concentrating on main battle lines to check the enemy's advance." Thus spoke General Dusan Simovitch- a man not given to loud and hollow talk ¶over the Yugoslav radio in the evening the sixth day of fighting. Germany's early successes had been undeniably brilliant. Before the Yugoslavs had even been able to take battle stations, the Nazis had virtually completed the first phase of Blitzkrieg-the wild, daring dash for centers of communication and command. And they had done this just as fast as if the terrain were flat as Denmark. But Dusan Simovitch...
...Under a brilliant moon the desert looked like a plain of salt. Across it three British staff cars sped. At a fork in the road a sentry stopped them and signaled the drivers to turn off onto a small side road. The drivers told the sentry who were in the cars-two generals and their staffs. The sentry said he was sorry, but the main road ahead was being prepared for demolition in connection with withdrawal operations...
Bill Abrahams at his unusual best has written some brilliant poetry. "Lovers as Nihilists" is not in that category. The poem begins by scorning the artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds...
...SCHORER'S second novel, "The Hermit Place," is a brilliant presentation of certain characters and the doom they brought upon themselves by their own falsity. They all deserved to be damned; indeed they carried their damnation with them. But the book does not belong on the shelf of modern pessimism. It is neither nihilistic nor gloomy. These people are only one set, a segregation of incorrigibles. They have worldly circumstance in their favor, but their destruction comes from within. They live and breathe--Mr. Schorer's powers of characterization are extraordinary--but luckily they are only a segment...