Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife," says Ludwig Bemelmans, "I have ever seen") is rather like a very large red pear that the ants have been at. Fred Allen has other gifts as well. John Steinbeck considers him "unquestionably the best humorist of our time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy, calls him "the best wit, the best extemporaneous comedian I know." Edgar Bergen, a very thoughtful fellow among professional comics, dogmatically says that Fred is "the greatest living comedian . . . a wise materialist who exposes and ridicules the pretensions...
...world has yet to produce a great woman composer. But some of today's most brilliant and brilliantined names in music went to a dame school to get their shine...
...When Los Alamos grew bigger, it called in an outside educator as superintendent of schools. He figured that the brilliant scientists of Los Alamos must have brilliant offspring-probably an average I.Q. of 150. His school consequently emphasized college preparation for all, leaned hard on "oldfashioned" studies that discipline the mind...
...play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
...James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME, March...