Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISAAC BABEL: YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING, edited by Nathalie Babel. This collection of newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches by the brilliant Russian-Jewish writer purged by Stalin, demonstrates the individuality that was both Isaac Babel's genius and his death warrant...
What Moby Dick did not reveal, The Year of the Whale does-and on terms that can stand the comparison. Victor B. Scheffer is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but his facts tick off the tongue of a poet. The result is a brilliant and affectionate one-mammal bestiary...
...Saturday afternoon fantasy that used to be the staple of movie house matinees during the fifties, and still shows up with welcome regularity on all those Million Dollars Movies. Nevertheless, the book is unbelievably suspenseful. Crichton is a master at keeping the reader one step ahead of his brilliant-but-sometimes-obtuse scientists. It is painful to watch their ignorance lag behind your own understanding; reading this book becomes one of the most cogent arguments for taking an Evelyn Wood course I've ever come across...
...determined policy of independence-began to blossom. Workmen decked out the motorcade route with U.S. and Rumanian flags, newspapers bannered the arrival, and factory workers-let off their jobs several hours early-began streaming out to Otopeni Airport. By the time President and Mrs. Nixon stepped into the brilliant Bucharest sunshine, some 600,000 Rumanians had lined up to provide the warmest and most tumultuous welcome of Nixon's trip. The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled palace of Rumania's kings. Raising his champagne glass, Ceausescu toasted...
...Delos a waste? No: if the formal meetings lack unity and direction, Dox-iadis still performs a considerable service by bringing together brilliant, informed, influential people and giving them time to teach and invigorate one another. Much of the payoff occurs between the regular sessions when the participants freely exchange new ideas and form new intellectual friendships. Delos may be pretentious; it is also fun, and the experience is bound to affect urban crises throughout the world...