Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus descended upon Café Society on its opening night, when a pale young man, one of the guests, stepped up with a clarinet. It was Benny Goodman, just recovered from long illness (sciatica). When he sent out Somebody Stole My Gal, pure, liquid, brilliant, the place rocked...
...might be given in some cases, but actually it does not work out that way. The Harvard Clubs are so impressed by the used of picking material which can make the Dean's List in the Freshman year that they tend to say away from activities men and toward brilliant scholars...
...Brilliant Chinese leaders by the score owe their education to American universities. A chief official of the Chinese information ministry, Hollington K. Tong, is a graduate of the journalism schools of the Universities of Missouri and Columbia. Our schools of journalism have had more effect, proportionately, on Chinese newspapers than...
...Hitler the galloping creeps. Head of a Woman (see cut) had a green face, red highlights in the black hair. In Small Girl With Tulips, the sad-looking child was colored a greyish blue, in contrast with the yellow and green flowers. Purely as water colors, the pictures were brilliant and velvety, carefully brushed on Japanese paper soaked in water. They confirmed what Nolde wrote of himself: "The devil lives in his limbs, divinity in his heart. . . . He sees not much, but other men see nothing...
...socialist theory into a military crusade of the working class against the middle class were Karl Marx, atheist offspring of several long lines of respected rabbis, and Friedrich Engels, amiable son of a prosperous Rhenish textile tycoon. Marx brought to this crusade a stupendous knowledge of Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says...