Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great emotion floods the heart -emotion of great pride for the Motherland, for the Soviet people, for the creative labor inspired by the genius of that greatest and dearest man, Comrade Stalin...
...never been one of the strongest organizations in the College. It usually has amounted to an uninteresting collation of three years of sports, a huge, incredibly dull section of individual picture and not much else. The man who gets stuck the editor's job must either be a genius at getting things-done or write it-himself...
...when they vetoed his idea and launched the first successful U.S. newspaper syndicate himself. In 1893, on $2,800 in profits from the syndicate and a borrowed stake, McClure started his magazine. At its peak in 1906, Steffens, Tarbell, and Baker walked out after an argument with the "mad genius," and took over the rival American Magazine...
...daily Voice of America broadcasts to Eastern Europe. In the case of Shostakovich, a few dreamers hoped for more sensational results: the New York musicians' union invited the submissive Soviet composer, who works hard to keep in tune with his masters, to unpack and let "his genius flower ... in the blessed air of freedom." No one could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich had been allowed to leave the country and while he is away Moscow...
...nearly 20 years since he had graduated from Curtis-where, White says, "everyone was a genius"-he had learned that he was not one. Bowing his viola in the St. Louis Symphony for six years, then in Hollywood's radio and recording studios, he had become convinced that the top U.S. conservatories were "only helping students to fool themselves...