Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Blaustein was a genius in oil. His tank wagon business grew into American Oil Co. (Amoco). By 1922 its stations on the Atlantic seaboard were important competitors of Standard of New Jersey stations. The Blausteins worried about their source of supply, because Amoco was strictly a marketing company, depended chiefly on competing Standard of New Jersey for its gasoline and oil. Smart merchandisers, the Blausteins saw a way out, in 1923 sold half the stock of Amoco to Pan American (then controlled by Edward L. Doheny), congratulated themselves that finally they had an integrated setup. For Pan American, with...
...insists that Tatum is not such a terrific piano man, that he doesn't have taste, fluent ideas, or touch, though he does have enormous techniques. Trumpeteer Roy Eldridge thinks he's the greatest around. Listen for yourself and see whether you think it's meaningless runs or inspired genius...
...conscious U. S., businessmen are reassuring, and the President had named three first-rate captains of industry: i) huge, grey-blond Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, 61, Danish immigrant boy who graduated from shipyard riveting to the presidency of General Motors Corp., a ponderous, accented, self-made man, a production genius; 2) white-haired, handsome young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 39, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, able, good-natured, a man with some flair for management, with a deep sense of social responsibility; 3) roundheaded, modest, clear-minded Ralph Budd, 60, an Iowa farm boy who became...
...they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius for observing, and recording, the splendors of the natural world, the beauty of natural tasks and pleasures. The book has been given an excellent translation...
...fact that many people found such poetry haunting, it remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose. He was hot on the track of the thing that would enable a poet to know just what he is doing, when he writes a poem that will haunt some other man like an unforgettable dream...