Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Nazi accounts, Adolf Hitler's brilliant mind does not merely remember what he reads; it photographs it, frames it, and tacks it to the side of his skull. If this is so, somewhere in Hitler's mind lies the picture of the words he once wrote about his own sensations in World War I: "I felt fully the whims of fortune which kept me at the front in a place where any lucky move on the part of a Negro could shoot me down." If defeat ever comes to his armies, his people may begin...
Last week the Chinese War Ministry announced "the most brilliant military feat of the entire war," with the capture of the outposts of the city of Nanchang and the destruction of 20,000 out of 56,000 Japanese troops. But it was neither so brilliant nor so bold a victory as Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek won in his own capital, Chungking...
Although I am one of this thoughtless generation (13), I generally read TIME. In the Feb. 24 issue I came across your brilliant (oh, yeah!) expose of comic books. I was amazed: "An overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting." Brother, don't make us laugh...
...about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...
...protest" groups, springing up whenever the tenure of a valued teacher is threatened, are a haphazard method at best. However healthy it is that they should arise, their effectiveness is sure to be hurt because they are locking the stable door after the horse, in the form of a brilliant educator, has already departed along with his horse sense. Quite obviously the Council's committee must function in cooperation with the Faculty and the Administration, enunciating the students' views on broad trends as well as particular details of curriculum and tenure, and making it clear in every case before...