Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...
...Crooked genius of Pacific Finance Corp. is its founder and president, sickly, old (68) Leo Ritter, who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of his profits to Catholic, Jewish and Protestant charities, kept a mansion in Brooklyn surrounded by a garden. Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims. Since Pacific has $900,000 in cash and securities, this it can well...
Purcell expressed completely this secular spirit; his comprehensive genius seized on certain formulae of taste, and forged them into a style which at once satisfied popular demand and his own individuality. Eccentric rhythms, unusual and striking harmonics, surprises in melodic line: all of these fill the pages of his scores. The restless gaiety of the court made variety an essential ingredient in all art, but few succeeded as well as Purcell in pouring into this exacting mold their own genius. Pergolesi, in Italy fifty years later, was still struggling for artistic homogeneity. Incongruously juxtaposed in the "Stabat Mater" are passages...
...been subjected to the variation and development of which only highly trained musicians are capable. The principal musical ideas of the world's greatest composers, from Bach to Strawinsky, in their original form might well be and often are the products of a folk group rather than a single genius. And the possibilities of transforming these so-called "simple" Negro melodies into classical music of tremendous power are shown by the popularity and genuine artistic merit such a work as Dvorak's New World Symphony...
...girl got a "genius" rating...