Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President is a profound student of naval strategy, a genius at political maneuver. But he does not delegate authority. He is not at home in the realm of industry and production. Above all, he does not call forth the national will to action-although, because he is the President, it can scarcely act unless he leads...
...Wound and the Bow takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...
...Stock Exchange's new long-term foreign issues shrank from 1928's billion dollars to 1932,s nothing. England went off gold. In the U.S. men sold apples on street corners; the Bonus Army marched on Washington. Into power in Germany came a nervous, harsh-voiced, twisted genius named Adolf Hitler. Economic nationalism, forced into full flower by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, became the physical basis for the ideology of Fascism. The lines were written, the stage was set for World...
Rainer Maria Rilke could serve as a symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...
...Coney Island-indeed for amusement parks all over the world-was a mechanical genius named Lamarcus A. Thompson, who at the age of twelve made for his mother the first rotary churn in the U.S. Later he started a knitting mill, then began to ponder upon the fact that under certain conditions what comes down must go up. At Coney Island, in 1884, Thompson built an uphill-&-downdale gravity railroad on a wooden structure 600 ft. long, the world's first roller coaster...