Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story unfolded by Government witnesses picked up where the Senate's war investigating committee left off last summer (TIME, July 15 et seq.), when Andy May rushed home with a heart attack. The Government's case made Andy out an industrious genius at the art of exerting Congressional pressure. Nothing was too much trouble...
...such artist, famed, then forgotten as a personality, and now rediscovered. The 20th Century had a new name for him: though Henry Fuseli antedated the term he was England's first and best Surrealist. When he died in 1825, Sir Thomas Lawrence mourned the passing of a "kindred genius if not greater" than Michelangelo. But by 1868 Fuseli's reputation had so diminished that his most popular painting, The Nightmare, sold for about a pound...
...close friends temper this estimate. Bernard Baruch, who has known Billy for 30 years, says solemnly: "This man, small in stature, is big and broad and fine in his viewpoints." Author Ben Hecht admits that "Billy has a genius for not making friends" and is "as wistful as a meat ax"; but he is also "a kind of frustrated poet . . . a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into...
...efforts to fight Marxism with its own weapons have inevitably taken a Marxist turn. Both Naziism and Fascism, Biographer Schwarzschild points out, are Marxist mutations whose predestined political form is therefore the police state. In Nazi concentration camps, as in Russian forced-labor camps, Karl Marx was the presiding genius. In the name of human progress, Marx has probably caused more death, misery, degradation and despair than any man who ever lived...
...still meets Monday nights for a learned chat with Harvard's Society of Fellows, invites friends to his apartment for coffee and conversation. Most of them agree at least one-third with Gertrude Stein, who once wrote: "Only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell rang within me. . . . The three geniuses [are] Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead...