Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare was not a manufactured article. He happened. So did I. We must take our luck in the matter of genius. Short of that we must get on with American mass production...
...baited the hook with capital gains more skillfully than bald, smart Charlie Einfeld, onetime exploitation "genius" at Warner Brothers. In less than six months he had formed Enterprise Productions, signed up enough big name stars for six super epics. Typical was his deal to make Eric Remarque's Arch of Triumph. He landed Actress Ingrid Bergman with a promise of $175,000 in salary, plus half the profits; he promised Remarque 15% of the profits, Director Lewis Milestone and Producer Davis Lewis 10% each...
Atatürk, a cold-blooded genius who founded the People's Party, aimed at eventual democracy as part of his Westernization movement, which included a Westernized alphabet and abolition of the veil for women. This week it looked as if a dictatorship was peacefully evolving into a free country...
...Genius," Oscar Wilde once said, "is born, not paid." His own limp-lily brand of Irish-Oxonian genius has been paid many times over, which is not necessarily to say overpaid. In the years since his death in 1900 (from cerebral meningitis, probably complicated by syphilis), he has become more & more renowned-a state of affairs which he would doubtless find amusing...
...that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd when they married in 1884, and "delighted" in Cyril and Vyvyan, their two sons, born a few years later.* Wilde, moreover, according to Pearson, did not become a "practicing" homosexual until after the children were born. Constance, for her part, remained...