Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat awed by what he had wrought. "Here we have the representatives of all the good people of the world," said he. "I have counted up, and over a billion people, half the people of the earth are represented here tonight to pay honor to one of the greatest men we have ever produced...
...James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words-many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement in modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...years, ever since Ralph H. Isham (Yale '14) first heard of them. One batch had been uncovered in Ireland's Malahide Castle in 1927, another in Scotland. Isham bought the Malahide papers, and after years of dickering acquired the rest. Scholars hailed them as the greatest literary find of the century...
Says O'Faolain, in further judgment: "The greatest curse of Ireland has not been English invasions or English misgovernment; it has been the exaggeration of Irish virtues-our stubbornness, conservatism, enormous arrogance, our power of resistance, our capacity for taking punishment, our laughter, endurance, fatalism, devotion to the past all taken to the point where every human quality can become a vice instead of a virtue. So that, for example, humor becomes cynicism, endurance becomes exhaustion, arrogance blindness and the Patriot a Blimp. In other words Ireland is learning, as Americans say, the hard way . . . Ireland has clung...
...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...