Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although some prestige might attach itself to the uniqueness of a choir which ranges in the lower octaves, little of the praise will be reserved for the programming. Composers of church music have never been forced to leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...
Arkham House, publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
Luther is accused [TIME, April 1] of being the evil genius of Germany's absolutism, worse than Hitler. But in his Secular Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, he writes: "But when a prince is in the wrong, are his people bound to follow him then too? I answer, No, for it is no one's duty to do wrong." Hardly compatible with the accusation leveled...
...comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned in drink his jealousy of his sisters' genius. And Anne (Nancy Coleman) was around a lot, but practically unnoticeable...
Canoes, Then Babies. The consequence is that Raven has spare time on his hands, and little better to do than think and dream. His genius begins to glow. One day, while holding some skins about a fire, he notices the smoke rising straight in the air. A great moment in history: "He did not realize that he was making the first chimney." Another great moment: Raven idly chips away with a flint knife on a fallen log, decides to try an experiment...