Word: brightest
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...wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It is also the latest and plainest sign that native American and recent European traditions of art and thought can flow together and that this cultural Mississippi, though full of snags and shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough to court comparison, in method at least, with the Ulysses of James Joyce...
...Brightest bit of fantasy was the work of an expatriated Englishman named O'Connor Barrett, who had to outgrow a strait-laced start. Barrett's strict parents had talked Latin at dinner, limiting their conversation almost entirely to religion. In 1923, when he was 15, Barrett went to work in a furniture factory and subsequently carved hundreds of Chippendale chair legs. Says he: "Oh, how I hate Chippendale!" There was no Chippendale influence in his squatly intense Stalemate, which looked like a couple of ancients so intent on a game of chess that their bodies knottily reflected...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, announced yesterday that his station in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, had just recorded a comet described as the brightest since the discovery of Haley's comet in 1910. Sky-minded newspapers in South Africa and New Zealand had reported spotting the comet on Wednesday...
...briefly or in haste. An adequate description of the tasks to be performed by American college, and by Harvard in particular, will require intensive study by thoughtful, intelligent, imaginative men. In the weeks to come the Crimson hopes to offer what can only be partial and tentative answers. The brightest possibility of a more through study is presented by the Student Council's intention to draw on the best minds in the College and University and give them free rein to look into the numberless aspects of the problem and formulate extensive proposals and suggestions. The project should...
...lift the curtain, Barnes picked four of the Trib's brightest and best young Rover Boys (TIME, Jan. 27). From Paris: Bureau Chief Walter Kerr, 35, who covered wartime Moscow, and Bill Attwood, 28, a World War II infantry captain. From London: Bureau Chief Ned Russell, 30, ex-U.P. man and Trib war correspondent. From New York: Editorial Writer Russell Hill, 29, who reported World War II from Tunis to Berlin...