Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...
Outstanding among the current war-inspired films, this one begins a la Hemingway in Loyalist Spain, and proceeds by dint of skillful direction and Noel Cowardly dialogue right up to the present. It is built around the ancient girl reporter backbone, but manages, by the brilliant development throughout, to deemphasize this pleasantly...
...seem irrelevant today when America is beginning to find a place for its jobless--in the army and in defense industries. But this currently popular remedy is at best a palliative, and in the long run aggravates the disease. For as William James pointed out in 1910 in his brilliant essay on "The Moral Equivalent of War" which is reprinted in this volume, there is a direct and fundamental connection between a frustrated generation with no stake in society, and the devastation of recurring warfare...
...warriors (begat by whom, no one knows) to fruitful places. Jimmu made jars out of Mt. Kagu, filled them with rice wine, placed them in the River Nyu, and when the drunken fish wobbled to the surface, he said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand...
...getting repulsed just as consistently--like a bill collector. Brown had been using almost as many different unorthodox defenses as Harvard, and its defense had stiffened whenever the Harlowmen advanced into scoring territory. Finally in the fourth quarter Charley Spreyer touched off a 63 yard voyage with a brilliant 12-yard touchdown drive around his own right end. Blocking was negligible after he crossed the line of scrimmage, and that made it necessary for him to wrench himself loose from at least three would-be Brown tacklers...