Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good books, and is a constant reader of authors ranging from Browning to Wodehouse. When the Kipling Society of London quoted Kipling to congratulate him on taking Bardia, he cabled back immediately another reference from the same story. As his troops pushed on, other Wavell traits came out: his genius for cooperation, indicated by the way his men worked with R. A. F. and Navy; his complete confidence in subordinates like Major General Richard Nugent O'Connor, commander in the western desert who commanded operations in the field; his ability to improvise, indicated by the use made of Italian...
Many people who work with Bill Lear in laboratories by day think he is a genius. Many who see him by night, paying his way into café society, think he is daffy. What the latter fail to understand is that he works while he plays. Some of his best ideas for improving aircraft radios and instruments have hit him in the Stork (which he calls "my night office"). He pays alimony to four ex-wives, is one of the outstanding answers to the prayers of chorines in Manhattan, Hollywood and points between. He is also a prolific inventor...
...Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the masses in the old order while it sapped the faith of the old order in itself. Hitler, himself a man of the masses, had the political genius to perceive that the revolution is everywhere because the masses are everywhere. He did not make the revolution, he used...
Increasingly newsmen have lately been stirred by uneasy memories of World War I's Committee on Public Information, and its mercurial creator of genius, George Creel, the crusading Denver newspaperman. Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"-in short, "voluntary censorship." With that idealistic base Creel proceeded to build such a propaganda wonder, with vast, adroitly concealed powers over the press...
Professor Whitehead has contributed as much to the intellectual growth of the University as any teacher who has graced the Yard in all its three hundred years, but his fame doesn't rest on teaching alone. He has the rare combination of teaching ability and creative genius. The tradition of his Phil 3 may last as long as Harvard, but his "Principia Mathematic" and his "Process and Reason" will last as long as thought. His work in the correlation of science and philosophy have earned him a position among the greatest thinkers of our time. We wish him a happy...