Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devotee of Miss Shirley Jackson's author of "The Lottery" and other macerating tales. Again, it was only a sense of duty which prevailed over this reader's lack of interest in the story. Though its ending is momentarily stunning, the author attempted to make it appear brilliant by writing the preceding paragraphs with pen dipped in dishwater. There may be some question as to whether or not it belongs in a "humorous" magazine, as well...
...last week, Bidault would only say that both M.R.P. and De Gaulle served France-"but in different ways." De Gaulle, he added, was a "brilliant and fleeting hope...
...statement continued to say that apart from its implications for academic freedom, such a policy might reduce the effectiveness of scientific research, drive away brilliant students, reduce the free flow of ideas, and finally,".... alienate scientists, discouraging them from participation in government-sponsored research, thus retarding the progress of work vital to the national safety and welfare...
Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the torrent of Oxford language which pours forth from this round and rumpled gentleman but seldom succeeds in keeping up with his pace. Berlin himself observes that his audiences "first struggle desperately but then sink under, staring with glazed eyes." One intense lady became so desperate that she finally interrupted...
Just what manner of man was this Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious...