Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brilliant Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
...around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
...Oregon State, no charges of Communist Party membership had been made. Spitzer, a brilliant, fidgety man of 30, had been an active campaigner for Henry Wallace; his wife, an Oregon State student, was the firebrand of the campus Young Progressives organization. La Vallee, too, was a Wallaceite. Some students thought he was "pretty radical" in his economics classes, but he still taught his subject from standard texts. As for Spitzer, he had stuck pretty close to chemistry...
Mother Cohen's prophecy came true. She lived to see her son become a professor of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, the most brilliant man on the faculty and one of the most respected of U.S. philosophers...
Reiner didn't get quite the cast he had in mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...