Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinks gigantically," said Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt. "If thought were light, and our planet visible by it, and space were time, the next ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
When blatant Bill Jack and his quiet partner Ralph M. Heintz peddled their war baby last spring to Manhattan engineer B. C. Milner Jr. and Byron C. Foy, onetime vice president of Chrysler Corp., they got 1) roughly $8 million in cash and stock, 2) five-year contracts at $40,000 a year, 3) promises to retain their employe program...
Making Things Clear. Bill Jack soon exploded his resentment in Cleveland's newspapers. So the board of directors decided that Jack was to go on leave, with Board Chairman Byron Foy taking over his job. The board also said that "Mr. Jack . . . wishes to make clear that there is no disagreement whatsoever over the personnel policies...
...Shelley had genius but he would not have been a success on Wall Street-though the poet showed a flash of business knowledge in refusing to lend money to Byron...
...three months, pint-sized Ben Hogan had become Mr. Golf by picking up where greying, golfed-out Byron Nelson left off (TIME, Sept. 2). A good many pros are convinced that Hogan is now better than, Nelson in all departments, and at 34 he is getting cooler and tougher...