Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True to his early sympathies, he went to live in Britain. At the end of World War I, when Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered him any honors he wished for the brilliant services he had rendered Britain as a scientist, Weizmann declined. Said he: "There is only one thing I want -a national home for my people." A few months later, the Balfour Declaration of a Jewish homeland was published...
...play chronicles the brilliant, unprincipled career of an Englishman who will stoop to any low trick out of love for his son. The theme...
...fourth volume of Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...
...many years, thesis courses were offered by departments administering General Examinations. This was supposed to include tutorial as well. But it was always hard to find brilliant young men who could understand and really teach undergraduates. Because of its high standards, the Economics Department had a difficult time; it took from three to five years to turn out a first-class tutor. Then came the war, and afterward the Department was faced with the task of breaking in a completely new staff. The job was further complicated by the fact that these potential tutors were snapped up by other Universities...