Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations as a writer. He had a simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life, even in a few lines. Middle-aged women, like Tom's Aunt Polly, are fully and tenderly vivid. But Mark Twain's young women, says Critic DeVoto, are just so much "bisque" and "pasteboard." Mark Twain never could...
...even local offensives. China has shown an unbelievable capacity for suffering that stands out in bold relief when it is seen how deeply seven months of defeats have bitten into the core of American and British morale in the Far East. But in the near future China's genius, her capacity for suffering, may not be enough...
Shankaracharya, religious reformer and young genius of the 9th Century A.D., "traveled all over India ... as a conqueror of the mind and in argument...
Lenin. "A master mind and a genius in revolution," a "lump of ice covering a blazing fire within...
...last sentence, which calls him a man without genius, who only in a few pages becomes a great artist, is as vile a slur as I ever hoped to see in your pages...