Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman's World. Raven is the hero. He is identified as a "genius," a man with a "revolutionary" mind. Genius or not, he is deceitful, lazy, lousy, and hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...
...quality Housman always lacked-the pure genius for simple, limber speech, untroubled by literature. But all that can be done by lyric inspiration under literary control he did in such a poem...
...Moscow hospital bed, Russia's Dionysian cinema genius Sergei Eisenstein rolled and roared with joy. The cause of his delight was the medical opinion that he was dead. He had died, according to doctors, during his celebration of the completion of Part II of his three-part chef-d'oeuvre, Ivan the Terrible. Dancing with a young girl had been too much for his heart and he had collapsed...
...Kentucky is a first-rate comic idea, but it requires a comic genius as great as Gogol's to handle it adequately. Ex-Navy Lieut. Jesse Stuart (Taps for Private Tussie, etc.) is no Gogol. But he knows Kentucky hill life inside out (he is a native son). His ability to turn what he knows into corn-fattened pathos and good-natured farce makes Foretaste of Glory a very likable book...
...Jolly Pig). At ten she had finished grammar school (her I.Q.: 185); at eleven she had written 100 piano compositions. Most of her friends, she says, are grownups. Her Negro novelist father, George Schuyler (Black-No-More, Slaves Today) and her white Texas-born mother used to credit her genius to such things as her diet of raw meat, but now she is a vegetarian for what she calls "esthetic reasons...