Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these tactics, in which Prince Konoye showed himself to be an inventive genius, the new Premier shoved the Japanese Empire a long step towards what it thinks it desires: totalitarianism. The Prince, who once appeared at a masquerade dressed up as Hitler, seemed last week to enjoy the novel game of dictator. Even the Army looked as if it liked being told what to do (because it was told to do virtually what it wanted). But there was almost too much novelty in Japan last week. Seasoned bystanders expected Konoye would eventually get bored, or the Army restive...
...administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young Marshall tossed off astute, clearly written orders to cover tactical situations in maneuvers, called him the greatest U. S. military genius since Stonewall Jackson. Modest George Marshall has been trying to forget this heavy praise ever since. But General Bell was not alone in his high opinion. Able, erratic, spectacular General Johnson Hagood once wrote, on a Marshall efficiency report: "This officer [then a lieutenant] is well qualified to command...
...Thus the artists led off the industrial revolution and now that the revolution has reached the saturation point, industry is leading the trend back to art. Conditions for the perfectly functioning machine are precisely the same needed for perfect art. . . . Americans (workers as well as designers) are expressing artistic genius through beautiful machines. They don't know that they are artists any more than the old Mexican pottery workers know that they...
CECILE PASQUIER -Georges Du-hamel-Ho/f ($2.75). Herein, in books 6, 7, and 8 of his Pasquier Chronicles, Georges Duhamel continues to outline not only a family but the city of Paris, the civilization of modern France. Chief characters are Sister Cecile, pianistic genius...
Georges Bernanos is concerned with the least stylish of possible human attributes: holiness. "Compared to it, even the urge of genius is a frivolous game. Lord, every life finely lived bears witness to You. But the witness which is borne by saints must be torn with irons out of their bodies...