Word: genius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces that instability of temperament, emotional pressure...
Perhaps the task of self-effacement is made easier by the fact that the lion's share of the play goes to her husband. Mr. Lunt is the "Meteor", the egoistic genius who, in his spurt of overwhelming success, ruins the lives of all about him. Never has he given a more powerful performance, never displayed so artistically, his uncanny instinct for attack and transition. A long speech in his hands never becomes boring. Each new thought that forms in the character's head is projected definitely by changes in his voice, in his body, and his face...
...with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity of France. When he had done, M. Tardieu received...