Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...
...assistants have the patience to fix the leaves on trees or to paint in windows on the buildings, for he personally prefers working on the interesting general problems in modeling rather than on the meticulous details. Yet it is the combination of Pitman's modeling genius and the fine precision work of his assistants that have gained the Pitman Studio the unqualified praise of the University...
...said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus. "It's a different kind of trade," he cheerfully concluded. "Can't expect t'understand it if yer know nauwt about...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...
...hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness; it made the Dickens novels, says Author Pearson, seem like "a blazing volcano of genius almost entirely surrounded by a morass of imbecility...