Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius of the family, troubled his imagination. "His early stories," Cantwell observes, "deal often with the rather mortifying masculine experience of encountering women whose sexual experience is greater than...
...please leave us to our own interpretation of the works of Al Capp [TIME, Sept. 13]- undoubtedly the most brilliant satirist of our era. His genius defies interpretation . . . Like fine music, Capp's cartoons mean many things to many people. Don't spoil...
Near the hillside hamlet of Congonhas do Campo at that time lived the mulatto son of a Portuguese carpenter. Men called him Aleijadinho* (Little Cripple), and knew that he had a mysterious disease which had left him hideous, broken and bent. But disease could not cripple Aleijadinho's genius for building great and gorgeous baroque churches and filling them with sculptured figures of beauty and power unparalleled in Brazil before or since...
...they are inseparable, buzz in & out of each other's houses, often leave their wives twiddling their thumbs at the gin rummy table while they rush to the piano with an idea. Each considers the other, in Hollywoodese, a "great genius." Sammy likes to say that Jule writes "a warm tune" and "lets the melody go where it wants to go." But, says Jule: "I always give the pros a chance to use their voices, usually at the end so the public knows when to stand up and clap...
...from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...