It does not have to be a work of genius.
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In theory that's lazy, but in reality a work of genius was born.
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Reading it makes you realize what a work of genius "Hamilton" the play is.
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Sloan's work of genius was GM's organizational chart, the blueprint for American managerial capitalism.
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Gary Bettman is a visionary, and the salary cap is his signature work of genius.
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The Larry Sanders Show is a work of genius and still influences comedy today. pic.twitter.
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Looking back on the summer of 2004, Mourinho's transfer strategy stands out as a work of genius.
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The results, according to Morten Lund, who covered the research for SKI, were a work of genius.
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And if you think about it, that means the Renegade is something of a work of genius.
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READ MORE: Stephen King loves 'The Haunting of Hill House' and called it 'close to a work of genius'
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BRANTLEY On the other hand, the pure klutziness of "Mamma Mia!" is what makes it a strange work of genius.
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He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker's solo music as the work of genius.
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Rampage is a real head-scratcher: Either it's the dumbest movie I've seen in a while, or it's secretly a work of genius.
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No matter how much we all wanted it to be real, the letter is sadly just a work of genius trolling on Ritchie's part.
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Thomas Jefferson is a complicated historical figure as so many of our Founding Fathers were, but the Declaration of Independence was truly a work of genius.
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As striking as Frigid Forms Sell is as a piece of music, its cover art is a work of genius that reflects the band's concepts just as beautifully.
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Forza Horizon 4 is the culmination of a series of free-roaming, exciting racing games, and a work of genius for anyone who likes to drive digital cars.
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The memoir of a privileged child who went to Eton, its subject is commonplace for the period (it was published in 1940), but in execution, this is a work of genius.
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In any case, that endlessly fascinating trope — reclusive one-time novelist, famous for being afraid of their own fame, who may yet reveal a new work of genius — is dying out.
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But there have been plenty of other shows, both good and terrible, that boasted all-women staffs, and few have felt like the alchemical work of genius that is Russian Doll.
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"Fuller describes Bahcall's book as "a work of genius" and says it "brilliantly conveys multiple lessons about problem solving, group dynamics, and the value of thought and reflection in an immensely entertaining way.
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" The next year, Jones's first significant foray into verse, the long poem "In Parenthesis," inspired by his experiences as an infantryman in World War I, was described by T.S. Eliot as "a work of genius.
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This happened with Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children," which I hated the first three times I tried to read it, then on the fourth, I discovered it to be a work of genius.
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The art piece has sparked controversy, with some arguing it's a work of genius meant to offer insight into how Americans value objects while others point to its expensive sale as an indicator of wealth inequality.
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Or there's "O Caledonia," a novel by Elspeth Barker, a sparky, funny work of genius about class, romanticism, social tradition and literary tradition, and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th century, I reckon.
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If even a shred of that finds its way into these reflections on her passions, they could make for watching every bit as exciting as current Lifetime programming like Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon's current work of genius, UnREAL.
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This work of genius has been trending across Twitter: the grandma-fied remote… With some tape and paper you, too, can make your grandma's life immensely easier — and cut down on the number of times you need to help her change the channel.
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Finally, although future teenthrob scholars may disagree, I bet that in retrospect "What Do You Mean?" will stand as a work of genius to rival the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" or the Backstreet Boys's "I Want It That Way".
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That would be Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band's take on the equally ineffable work of genius "It's Tight Like That," which in the course of topping the leader's canonical Georgia Tom collab on the same song encodes into history the elan vital of a woman who laughs a verse in tune.
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The first time I saw "Hamilton," blown away as I was by it — and I am staunchly in the "Hamilton" is a work of genius camp — I was disappointed that there was so much terrific stuff for so many men to do, and basically two substantial female characters who are crucial to the story but still pretty much on its margins.
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Among the many interesting tidbits he revealed was that Read more of Business Insider's coverage of Netflix's "The Haunting of Hill House":Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' actor pointed out a disturbing clue about the fate of the show's characters'The Haunting of Hill House' director changed the show's original ending because it would have been too cruelThe cast of 'The Haunting of Hill House' couldn't sleep and felt 'crazed' during filmingHow 'The Haunting of Hill House' pulled off its best episode, which included '18-page scenes without any cuts'Stephen King loves 'The Haunting of Hill House' and called it 'close to a work of genius'
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Read more of Business Insider's coverage of Netflix's "The Haunting of Hill House":Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' actor pointed out a disturbing clue about the fate of the show's charactersNetflix's 'The Haunting of Hill House' director explains how he kept the show's biggest mystery hidden'The Haunting of Hill House' director changed the show's original ending because it would have been too cruelThe cast of 'The Haunting of Hill House' couldn't sleep and felt 'crazed' during filmingHow 'The Haunting of Hill House' pulled off its best episode, which included '18-page scenes without any cuts''The Haunting of Hill House' director is making a sequel to Stephen King's 'The Shining'Stephen King loves 'The Haunting of Hill House' and called it 'close to a work of genius'
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The Blue Idol received a dithyrambic review from Billboard, describing it as «a work of genius» and as «a triumph for Altan and a reminder of the endless charm of Irish music».
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And I think that's why > it's a work of genius. He's got it, it's the mood of our time that we're > waiting for. He's way ahead of our time, an epic emotional artist.
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What a work of genius this is! This is true Russia!" Another colleague, Claude Debussy, who later became an admirer took a more sober view of the score: "What do you expect? One has to start somewhere.
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Lev Lafayette says that it is "really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a "work of genius". Reviewed in White Wolf #35.
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Der Plan's musical style is a thing of much, and often heated debate. It has been referred to (in almost equal measures ) as "a work of Genius", and "the demented results of a kindergarten music project gone terribly wrong".
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The cantata ranks among Bach's most important works. The Bach scholar Alfred Dürr called the cantata "a work of genius such as even great masters seldom achieve... The Actus tragicus belongs to the great musical literature of the world".
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Music critic Richie Unterberger of Allmusic said of the song: "It might have been one of the less sophisticated and impressive tracks on the record, but it was still pretty good", and "'Little Child' might not be a work of genius, but it's sheer rock 'n' roll fun".
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He may have even found a way to express Calabi–Yau manifolds in a way that goes beyond a nonvanishing harmonic spinor and, independent of Charlie, published a work of genius entitled Zero Point Energy and Quantum Cosmology, which could provide insight into the cosmological constant problem (episode 3x4,The Mole).
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The Seven Lively Arts. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924, p. 231. Poet E. E. Cummings, another Herriman admirer, wrote the introduction to the first collection of the strip in book form. These critical appraisals by Seldes and Cummings were influential in establishing Krazy Kats reputation as a work of genius.
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Dame Ethel Smyth in 1922 said "The Immortal Hour enchants me. The whole thing gripped me". In 1924, Sir Edward Elgar described the opera as "a work of genius". Speaking in 1949, Sir Arthur Bliss said "I remember vividly how Boughton made his characters live, and the masterly effect of the choral writing".
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The composition is regarded by musicologist David Neumeyer as Hindemith's "only profoundly American work." and Paul Hume described it as "a work of genius and the presence of the genius presiding over its performance brought us splendor and profound and moving glory." It is noted that Hindemith incorporated a Jewish melody, Gaza, in his composition.
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Comedy was king, and battling for the throne were stars like Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chaplin. In a purely visual medium, their comedy was a work of genius. Interviews include Hal Roach, Sr., Jackie Coogan, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. # "Out West"'The Old West' was still in existence in the silent days.
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Steven Moore Whiting, "Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall", Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 505. Caryathis began her choreography in October 1920, with Satie protégé Francis Poulenc assisting as a rehearsal pianist. Poulenc wrote to Belgian music critic Paul Collaer that it was "a work of genius."Carl B. Schmidt, "Entrancing Muse: A Documented Biography of Francis Poulenc", Pendragon Press, 2001, p. 65.
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Mahler adopted him as a protégé and continued to support him, even after Schoenberg's style reached a point Mahler could no longer understand. Mahler worried about who would look after him after his death . Schoenberg, who had initially despised and mocked Mahler's music, was converted by the "thunderbolt" of Mahler's Third Symphony, which he considered a work of genius. Afterward he "spoke of Mahler as a saint" (; ).
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Benedetti (1999a, 368) and Magarshack (1950, 397–399). He "insisted that they work on classics, because, 'in any work of genius you find an ideal logic and progression'." He worked with the students in March and April 1937, focusing on their sequences of physical actions, on establishing their through-lines of action, and on rehearsing scenes anew in terms of the actors' tasks.Benedetti (1999a, 368–369).
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Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack was given mixed reviews from critics. Gann called it "solid, [...], but not awe-inspiring" and dismissed the limited edition extras as not worth the purchase. Eduardo of Square Enix Music Online, however, described it as "nearly perfect" and said that he "can, and will, run out of positive adjectives to describe the Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack. It's a work of genius".
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In 2003 Sheehy was appointed Artistic Director of the then-biennial Adelaide Festival to succeed Stephen Page following Page's 2004 Festival. Previous Adelaide Festival directors had included Sir Robert Helpmann; Anthony Steel; George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood; Barrie Kosky; Robyn Archer and Peter Sellars. Sheehy directed the 2006 and 2008 Adelaide Festivals. The receptionMcDonald, Patrick (2005), "Program 'a work of genius'", The Advertiser, 11 October 2005, p7. of the 2006 Festival was positive.
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In the play, the main character, Alceste, is good and honest in his relationships with men and made to look ridiculous, whereas Philinte, a deceiver and manipulator, is shown as superior. Rousseau considers this play to be a work of genius, but it is, of course, morally backwards. He reasons that even if comedy writers write a play that is morally acceptable, the audience will not find it funny. Therefore, theatres are of little use.
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Salter's hypnotic and relaxation techniques were first explained in his book, "What Is Hypnosis?" which was proclaimed a work of genius by Theodore X. Barber, a physiologist who researched hypnotic induction (Barber and Calverley) during the post World War II era. In 1941, Salter published an article entitled 'Three techniques of autohypnosis'. Salter wrote an article describing the modus operandi of self-hypnosis but couldn't get it published. None of the professional journals would touch the piece.
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Pastors and Masters (Pastors and Masters: A Study in the first edition) is a short novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett published in 1925. Called "a work of genius" by The New Statesman, it was the author's second novel and the first in which she introduced the characteristic style of clipped, precise dialogue that was to make her name. It is largely a character study, dealing with themes of tyranny, female subservience and unconventional sexuality within the setting of a boys’ preparatory school.
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"Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, volume one (Oxford University 1934, 2d ed. 1935, 1962) at I: 3./ref> G. P. Gooch gives us these comments evaluating Mommsen's History: "Its sureness of touch, its many-sided knowledge, its throbbing vitality and the Venetian colouring of its portraits left an ineffaceable impression on every reader." "It was a work of genius and passion, the creation of a young man, and is as fresh and vital to-day as when it was written.
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After its initial broadcast, the film was briefly an international success but was not widely available for many years afterward. Watkins has said that network officials tried to suppress its distribution, and tried to bar it from competition in the Cannes Film Festival, because they disapproved of its use of non-professional actors and anachronistic dialogue. After NRK relinquished rights to the film in 2002, it gained a wider international release. Ingmar Bergman called the film a "work of genius".
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Adler was then deposed in 1845. He later conceded that his revelation was a mistake, that "revelation was perhaps too strong an expression". To make matters much worse, Adler later published other works, and declared that his former "revelation" was instead a work of genius. Moreover, Kierkegaard met with Adler, who, in reading his own works to Kierkegaard, would alternate between a regular speaking voice and a shrill "whistling" voice, as if the latter were to convey weightier and more spiritual truths.
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The Book on Adler (subtitle: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age, Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon, A Mimical Monograph) is a work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, written during his second authorship, and was published posthumously in 1872. The work is partly about pastor Adolph Peter Adler who claimed to have received a revelation. After some questionable acts, Adler was subsequently dismissed from his pastor duties. Adler later claimed it was work of genius, and not of revelation.
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The cantata ends in a blazing C major, a favourite key of Prokofiev (cf. Piano Concerto No. 3, Russian Overture, and Symphony No. 4), while the choir sings, "You are the banner flying from our mighty fortress! You are the flame that warms our spirit and our blood, O Stalin, Stalin!" Sviatoslav Richter, in Bruno Monsaingeon's documentary, criticizes the "brutal" Prokofiev for working on commission "without principles" and calls Zdravitsa unplayable today due to its subject matter, but, nevertheless, an "absolute work of genius".
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The restoration was strongly criticized during Viollet-le-Duc's lifetime. Fresh from work in the north of France, he made the error of using slate (when there was no slate to be quarried around) instead of terra cotta tiles. The slate roofs were claimed to be more typical of northern France, as was the addition of the pointed tips to the roofs. Yet, overall, Viollet-le-Duc's achievement at Carcassonne is agreed to be a work of genius, though not of the strictest authenticity.
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John Cowper Powys listed The Good Girl at number 97 in his One Hundred Best Books. "This admirable work of art is not known as well as it deserves either in England or America," he said: > It is a work of genius in every sense of that word, and it produces on the > mind that curious sense of completeness and finality which only such works > produce... The author of this book must have a noble and formidable > soul.Powys, John Cowper (1916). One Hundred Best Books.
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" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow similarly classified Randolph as "the work of Genius" but in the same paragraph referred to it as "a compound of reason and nonsense--drollery and absurdity--wit and nastiness." This rhetoric of tempered praise that surrounded Neal in his life led historians to lament his inability to achieve what they saw as the potential of his genius. Biographer Donald A. Sears classified him as "a writer without a masterpiece" who "lived to be eclipsed by writers of lesser genius but greater control of their talents." Daggett said, "He flashed youthful brilliance.
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An anonymous 19th century imaginary portrait of Dafydd ap Gwilym. "The Wind" (Welsh: Y Gwynt) is a 64-line love poem in the form of a cywydd by the 14th- century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym. Dafydd is widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets, and this is one of his most highly praised works. Rachel Bromwich called it "one of the greatest of all his poems", while the academic critic Andrew Breeze has hailed it as "a masterpiece" and "a work of genius", noting especially its "rhetorical splendour".
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Longfellow had given a speech at their commencement calling for notable contributions to American literature. By this time, Longfellow was working at Harvard University and was becoming popular as a poet. Hawthorne wrote to him, "We were not, it is true, so well acquainted at college, that I can plead an absolute right to inflict my 'twice-told' tediousness upon you; but I have often regretted that we were not better known." In his 14-page critique in the April issue of the North American Review, Longfellow praised the book as a work of genius.
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Jin's first major critical activity, completed in 1641, was a commentary on the popular Chinese novel Shuihu Zhuan, known in the West as Water Margin, among other names. The commentary begins with three prefaces, in which Jin discusses his reasons for undertaking the commentary, and the achievements of putative Water Margin author Shi Naian. The next section is entitled "How to Read the Fifth Work of Genius". In addition to advice for the reader, this section contains Jin's thoughts on the literary achievements of the novel as a whole.
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People on Sunday () is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. The film follows a group of residents of Berlin on a summer's day during the interwar period. Hailed as a work of genius, it is a pivotal film in the development of German cinema and Hollywood.Berlin film festival website The film features the talents of Curt Siodmak (story), Fred Zinnemann (cinematography) and Eugen Schüfftan, who had developed the Schüfftan process for three years earlier.
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Reviewing the play's initial production at the Boston Museum, The Boston Post "warmly congratulated" Sullivan on his script and said that it overcame the difficulties of turning Stevenson's story into a drama with only a few flaws. Mansfield's performance was praised for drawing a clear distinction between Jekyll and Hyde, although the reviewer found his portrayal of Hyde better crafted than his portrayal of Jekyll. Audience reaction was enthusiastic, with long applause and several curtain calls for Mansfield. According to The Cambridge Tribune, the audience reaction affirmed "that the play and its production were a work of genius".
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In The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it a "magnificent, moving, and very mysterious new film". Roger Ebert gave Cries and Whispers four stars (out of four) in his initial review: "We slip lower in our seats, feeling claustrophobia and sexual disquiet, realizing that we have been surrounded by the vision of a film maker who has absolute mastery of his art". Variety staff praised the direction for "a hypnotic impact". In New York, Judith Crist called it "a work of genius— certainly the most complex, the most perceptive and the most humane of Bergman's works to date".
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The Executioner's Song won the Playboy writing award in 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1980, and was a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award. Christopher Ricks described the novel in the London Review of Books as "a work of genius in its range, depth, and restraint". Joan Didion remarks that "no one but Mailer could have dared this book. The authentic Western voice, the voice heard in 'The Executioner's Song,' is one heard often in life but only rarely in literature, the reason being that to truly know the West is to lack all will to write it down".
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During the half-century of his dramatic career Szigligeti wrote no fewer than a hundred original pieces, all of them remarkable for the inexhaustible ingenuity of their plots, their up- to-date technique and the consummate skill with which the author used striking and unexpected effects to produce his denouement. He wrote, perhaps, no work of genius, but he amused and enthralled the Magyar playgoing public for a generation and a half. Szigligeti's most successful tragedies were Gritti (1844), Paul Beldi (1856), Light's Shadows (1865), Struensee (iⅈ), Valeriaa and The Pretender (1868). His tragedies, as a rule, lack pathos and sublimity.
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They were also, at one point, the only part of the UK Defence Community directly assisting the UK Prevent agenda through their mentoring at the Active Change Foundation. The cadre was described by then Vice Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman as a 'work of genius'. In 2007 Mr Donnelly handed management of ARAG to Dr Jamie MacIntosh, the former Special Advisor to the Home Secretary Dr John Reid. Dr MacIntosh was responsible for advising Dr Reid to split the functions of the Home Office – declaring that it was not 'fit for purpose'.
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Sir Stanley wrote back, saying "If you think this to be a work of genius, then you may lose a thousand pounds." Unwin was also responsible for the first UK publication of the Roald Dahl children's books James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl had been struggling to find a publisher for these titles in the UK, but caught the attention of Unwin after Unwin's daughter Camilla became captivated by a copy of James and the Giant Peach that her schoolfriend Tessa Dahl (Roald's daughter) had given her.Sturrock, Storyteller, pp. 442–444.
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Alston Chase reported in The Atlantic that the text "was greeted in 1995 by many thoughtful people as a work of genius, or at least profundity, and as quite sane". Chase argued, however, that it "is the work of neither a genius nor a maniac. ... Its pessimism over the direction of civilization and its rejection of the modern world are shared especially with the country's most highly educated." UCLA political-science professor James Q. Wilson was mentioned in the manifesto; he wrote in The New Yorker that Industrial Society and Its Future was "a carefully reasoned, artfully written paper".
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It combined Xhosa and Christian ritual. Author Zakes Mda claimed Ipi Zombi to be a "A work of genius that maps out a path to a new South African theatre ..." In other works, such as Orfeus, Bailey takes a softer approach, and looks to highlight the blind, forgotten, the broken and the voiceless. In Orfeus, specifically, the audience is drawn down into an African underworld that is governed by a seedy businessman. Orfeus, and other works, look at a post-colonial, showing a "decaying globalised world in which not only shamanic rituals but also moving music create an entirely unique African atmosphere".
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Troubles was well-received upon its publication. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, later, the Lost Man Booker Prize. It was adapted into a made-for-television film in 1988, starring Ian Charleson and Ian Richardson. In 2010, Sam Jordison in The Guardian called Troubles "a work of genius", and "one of the best books" of the second half of the twentieth century. "Had [Farrell] not sadly died so young,” Salman Rushdie said in 2008, "there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language.
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Several articles on War and Peace were published in 1869–70 in Zarya magazine by Nikolai Strakhov. "War and Peace is the work of genius, equal to everything that the Russian literature has produced before", he pronounced in the first, smaller essay. "It is now quite clear that from 1868 when the War and Peace was published the very essence of what we call Russian literature has become quite different, acquired the new form and meaning", the critic continued later. Strakhov was the first critic in Russia who declared Tolstoy's novel to be a masterpiece of level previously unknown in Russian literature.
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Woodrow Phoenix is a British comics artist, writer, editorial illustrator, graphic designer, font designer and author of children's books. Phoenix is best known for Rumble Strip, published in 2008, a non-fiction look at the difficult social issues arising from society's dependence on the automobile, which was reviewed in the London Times as "an utterly original work of genius". Among his other solo creations, are The Sumo Family and The Liberty Cat. The Sumo Family debuted in Escape magazine, and was serialised weekly in the Independent on Sunday newspaper in the UK, then monthly in both Manga Mania magazine, and German/Swiss Instant magazine.
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He admired the characterisation of Tom Bombadil, the Ents, and Gollum. In his view, the One Ring was destroyed "with terrifying logic", though he did not demand that the text end there, noting that the hobbits' return to the Shire put the larger events in perspective. The novelist and publisher Michael Straight, reviewing the whole of The Lord of the Rings in The New Republic, wrote that the devastated landscapes in the work recalled Tolkien's First World War experiences, just as the snowstorm in the Misty Mountains recalled his climbing trip in Switzerland, and the Shire reflected England. He concluded by calling the novel a work of genius.
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Nonetheless, he enlisted the poet and critic Edwin Muir to read the manuscript, who claimed the play "a work of genius and utterly absurd."Quoted in Herring, 272 Muir did, however, suggest some editorial changes, especially to the first act, and Barnes produced a new draft of the play. In November 1956, with Muir and Eliot's recommendation, Faber & Faber agreed to publish the play, and Eliot agreed to write the preface for it as he had done for Nightwood. However, the draft preface he sent to Barnes ahead of the publication described the play as quixotic and Barnes as a writer with too much genius and not enough talent.
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Pirsig was turned down by 121 publishers, before publisher #122 accepted the manuscript. When he did, his publisher's internal recommendation stated, "This book is brilliant beyond belief, it is probably a work of genius, and will, I'll wager, attain classic stature." In his book review, George Steiner compared Pirsig's writing to Dostoevsky, Broch, Proust, and Bergson, stating that "the assertion itself is valid ... the analogies with Moby-Dick are patent". In 1974, Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write a follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), in which he developed a value-based metaphysics, Metaphysics of Quality, that challenges our subject–object view of reality.
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But while Cromelin thought it was good, he felt that the record and its style might not be of lasting interest: "We should all say a brief prayer that his fortunes are not made to rise and fall with the fate of the 'drag-rock' syndrome". Circus wrote that the album is "from start to finish [...] of dazzling intensity and mad design", and called it a "stunning work of genius". With the album, The Philadelphia Inquirer declared that "David Bowie is one of the most creative, compelling writers around today". Jon Tiven of Phonograph Record praised the album, calling it "the Aftermath of the Seventies", where there are no filler tracks.
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Edmund Wilson wrote of the novel: "Doctor Zhivago will, I believe, come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history".Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years By Brian Boyd, Princeton University Press, 1993, page 373 V. S. Pritchett wrote in the New Statesman that the novel is "[t]he first work of genius to come out of Russia since the revolution."The Statesman, Volume 22, page 48 Some literary critics "found that there was no real plot to the novel, that its chronology was confused, that the main characters were oddly effaced, that the author relied far too much on contrived coincidences."Richard Pevear, Introduction, Pevear & Volokhonsky trans.
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It was not until she was in her fifteenth year that the nature and force of her talents were noticed by her most intimate associates. She became interested in the work of her cousin, the sculptor, Alexander Gait (1827- 1863), and spent many hours in his studio. One day he gave her a small block of plaster, out of which, without assistance or model, she cut with a pen-knife a female head so plainly the work of genius that Gait took it with him to Italy, where it was seen by Thomas Crawford and Horatio Greenough, who were enthusiastic in their desire that she should devote herself to sculpture, but her father's death hindered her from doing so.
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Paine followed Re-enchantment with Adventures with the BuddhaAmazon.com: Adventures with the Buddha: A Buddhism Reader (9780393327465): Jeffery Paine: Books (2005), which elucidated Buddhism not through teachings or theology but by how it got lived out on a day-to-day basis by Western practitioners from the early Alexandra David-Néel and Lama Govinda to the contemporary Sharon Salzberg and Michael Roach. Publishers’ Weekly called it a work of "genius, one that delights, informs, and fires the imagination."Quoted on the book jacket of Adventures with the Buddha, W.W. Norton, 2005, hardcover, 416 pages, Most recently Paine published—19 years in the making—Enlightenment Town: Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Implausible Place.
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His reputation grew in the US following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a "work of genius". It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition (1949), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier. In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that "Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes".
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Derek Walmsley, > "Dubstep", The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music, ed. Rob Young, London: > Verso, 2009, p. 92. Burial's music features heavily in the work of celebrated documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. Curtis places Bevan's emotionally saturated sound within the context of a possible cultural revival of the spirit of Romanticism. Discussing the song ‘Come Down to Us’, which is a prominent motif on the soundtrack of his documentary ‘Bitter Lake’, in an interview with music and pop culture magazine Dazed Curtis lionises the piece as a work of ‘genius’ going on to explain: > It really sums up our time... That song is saying, it's really frightening > to jump off the edge into the darkness.
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Méhul's friend and rival composer Cherubini deeply admired Stratonice: "Of all the works by Méhul, this is the best from beginning to end...Stratonice lacks nothing; it is a work of genius, Méhul's masterpiece."Quoted by Bartlet in her booklet notes to the Christie recording, p.9 Hoffman's choice of Classical subject was unusual for the Opéra-Comique and Méhul's music was similarly innovative, more influenced by the serious tradition of tragédie lyrique than the lighter opéra comiques of Grétry which had been fashionable up to that point. Méhul studied Gluck and Salieri for their approach to musical drama, as well as Haydn's orchestration and the melodies of Sacchini and Piccinni, Italian composers who had written tragic operas for the French stage in the 1770s and 1780s.
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It received considerable negative criticism upon its release—a release which RCA, anxious to maintain the established commercial momentum, did not welcome, and which Bowie's former manager, Tony Defries, who still maintained a significant financial interest in the singer's affairs, tried to prevent. Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK No. 3 single "Sound and Vision", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached No. 2. Contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as "a work of genius" in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 "Low"; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 "Heroes".Sandford (1997): pp.
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Lynn Barber of the Daily Telegraph said that "Wilson's forte is the character and he brilliantly conveys Betjeman's odd mixture of introspection and sociability, gaiety and melancholia, exhibition and self-disgust ..." In The Times (London), James Marriott called his book Resolution "a work of genius". Kathryn Hughes wrote in The Guardian of Wilson's biography of Queen Victoria, Victoria: A Life, "Subtle, thoughtful ... a shimmering and rather wonderful biography." Daisy Goodwin in The Sunday Times review stated that "This won't be the last biography of Victoria but it is certainly the most interesting and original in a long time." Wilson's Hitler: A Short Biography was criticised by the historian Richard J. Evans in a review in the New Statesman for factual inaccuracies, lack of original research and analysis as well as personal biases.
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The Ring and the Book was, by some margin, the best-selling of all Browning's works during his lifetime. The depth of its philosophical, psychological, and spiritual insight is a step up from anything Browning produced before or after, and the poem was almost universally hailed as a work of genius, restoring the pioneering reputation among the first rank of English poets which Browning had lost with Sordello nearly thirty years previously. The book lost popularity with readers during the 20th century; after its printing by Scribner's in the early twentieth-century, The Ring and the Book was printed by W. W. Norton & Company in the 1960s and 1970s. It is now currently available, though still difficult to acquire affordably or in a non-scholarly reading edition, by Broadview Press.
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" (Richard Freed. Kennedy Center Stagebill, September 1990) "I am under an incredible impression, almost a shock, produced by all that I found in his inexhaustible scores ... Each sound in Artyomov's music comes from the heart, the soul, the nerves, – it is fine melodics, it is a kind of heavenly magic, which drives you up – to purity, self-perfection, beauty" (Dmitri Kitayenko, November 1988) "What we are witnessing is music that dares simply to exist, shining like the sun, allowing us to bask in its warmth ... The first part of the tetralogy, the Way to Olympus, is stunning ... Artyomov's On the Threshold of a Bright World is even more rare – it is a work of genius" (Octavio Roca. The Washington Times, September 24, 1990) "Artyomov is outstanding composer. His Requiem has raised Russian music to the unattainable previously height.
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" Aimee Cliff from Fact noted that even though the lyrics are about Swift's familiar theme of "documenting memories as romantic, filtered snapshots", "New Romantics" stood out thanks to Swift's songwriting craftsmanship. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone ranked "New Romantics" as the second best song of 2014, writing "I have no idea why she left a song this urgent and glittery and perfect off her album ... but geniuses are weird." In his 2019 ranking of Swift's songs, Sheffield ranked it the second best song of Swift's career, labeling it as "this work of genius, exceeding even the wildest hopes any fan could have dreamed." The song placed at number 58 on Rolling Stone list of "The 100 Best Songs of the 2010s"; the magazine commented that the song "is the type of relieving dance floor soul purge that the best pop can be.
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Gavin John Adams described the impact and legacy of Money and Trade Considered as follows: > Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with > Money was so much more than a mere proposal for a note-issuing bank. It was > a staggeringly original work of genius which not only included proposals for > new systems of banking, and the issuing of paper money as a means to > stimulate the economy, but also revealed, for the first time, several of the > most significant economic concepts ever devised; concepts which would later > be espoused by economists such as Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes without > acknowledgement. It was meant for the consideration of the Scottish > Parliament, but the ideas it contained fundamentally altered economics, > politics, finance, and, consequently, the modern world. John Law’s Money and > Trade Considered is the most influential but least acknowledged work in the > history of economics.
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"Frye (1947: 177) Writing in 1965, S. Foster Damon concurs with Frye's opinion. In the entry for Poetical Sketches in Damon's Blake Dictionary, he refers to Sketches as "a book of the revolutionary period, a time of seeking for non-neoclassical inspiration, a preparation for the Romantic period [...] For all the derivative material, the book is a work of genius in its daring figures, its metrical experiments, its musical tone."Damon (1988: 331) Damon also writes, "Historically, Blake belongs – or began – in the Revolutionary generation, when the closed heroic couplet was exhausted, and new subjects and new rhythms were being sought out. The cadences of the Bible, the misunderstood Milton and the poetic Shakespeare with his fellow Elizabethans were Blake's staples from the first; to them we must add the wildness of Ossian, the music of Chatterton, the balladry of Percy's Reliques, and the Gothic fiction of Walpole.
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Constructed on the French side of its borders with Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg, the line did not extend to the English Channel due to French strategy that envisioned a move into Belgium to counter a German assault. Based on France's experience with trench warfare during World War I, the massive Maginot Line was built in the run-up to World War II, after the Locarno Conference gave rise to a fanciful and optimistic "Locarno spirit". French military experts extolled the Line as a work of genius that would deter German aggression, because it would slow an invasion force long enough for French forces to mobilise and counterattack. The Maginot Line was invulnerable to aerial bombings and tank fire and had underground railways as a backup; it also had state-of-the-art living conditions for garrisoned troops, supplying air conditioning and eating areas for their comfort.
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The Times Sale Of The Vaile And Other Pictures 25 May 1903 The clothing of Reynolds' sitters was usually painted by either one of his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms. James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that "the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best." Lay figures were used to model the clothes. Reynolds often adapted the poses of his subjects from the works of earlier artists, a practice mocked by Nathaniel Hone in a painting called The Conjuror submitted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1775, and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.
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Linking the tracks with delicate arrangements and liberal amount of atmosphere (almost all tracks feature rain sound effects), the record contains some of Newbury's most celebrated compositions including "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye", "33rd of August", "I Don't Think Much About Her No More", and "San Francisco Mabel Joy". AllMusic's review of the album concludes, "Looks Like Rain is so fine, so mysterious in its pace, dimension, quark strangeness and charm, it defies any attempt at strict categorization or criticism; a rare work of genius." Looks Like Rain was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc Mickey Newbury Collection from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969–1981. In 2011, it was reissued again, both separately and as part of the four-disc Mickey Newbury box set An American Trilogy, alongside two other albums recorded at Cinderella Sound, Frisco Mabel Joy and Heaven Help the Child.
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Membership of the Advisory Board was generally confined to older (mostly) male writers of long-established reputations: Grenfell Price, Vance Palmer, T. Inglis Moore, Douglas Stewart, Geoffrey Blainey, Kenneth Slessor, Flora Eldershaw and Kylie Tennant. Maurice Dunlevy, in his article for the Canberra Times, echoed Grenfell Price in saying that the Fund may have enabled works to be published which otherwise would not have been written, or would have been of lesser quality, and helped in the careers of a few great writers (Les A. Murray, David Ireland, Alex Buzo, William Marshall, H. M. Green, and Judith Wright), but much of the work produced was of mediocre quality, and no book sponsored by the Fund could be called a work of genius. In 1973, by which time its budget had grown to $300,000, the functions of the CLF were taken over by the Literature Board, an arm of the Australia Council for the Arts.
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David Jones was a complex artist and his achievements are unusual, if not unique, in that he created admired and generally recognised important works both in the field of poetry and in the visual arts. However, according to the poet and critic Kathleen Raine, despite the supreme quality of his art... he has never at any time been a widely-read, still less a fashionable, writer, nor is he ever likely to become so for his work is too subtle and learned for popular tastes (Sewanee Review, 1967). In 1938 T. S. Eliot called In Parenthesis a 'work of genius', and Graham Greene, in 1980, "among the great poems of the century". W. H. Auden regarded The Anathemata as "one of the most important poems of our time", and called it in 1977, "probably the finest long poem in English" of the twentieth century. In 1962 Igor Stravinsky considered Jones "perhaps the greatest living writer in English", and in 1964 Herbert Read called him "one of the greatest writers of our time".
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