In "Triumvirate" the reader has a sense of the tragedy of McKim's great talents amid nearly constant psychological pain, which seems to be a frequent traveler with artistic genius.
"She mixes people like a cocktail and the result is sheer genius," Wallis Simpson, a frequent visitor, remarked.
"She mixes people like a cocktail — and the result is sheer genius," Wallis Simpson, a frequent visitor, remarked.
After the massive success of "Infinite Jest"—and the MacArthur committee's public crowning of Wallace as a "genius"—the author was at frequent pains to describe himself as not so all-fired smart as his reputation had it.
After the massive success of "Infinite Jest" — and the MacArthur committee's public crowning of Wallace as a "genius" — the author was at frequent pains to describe himself as not so all-fired smart as his reputation had it.
A playwright and frequent writer for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, his play, "The Bashful Genius," was produced in the U.S. and Europe earning the John Van Druten Playwright Award.
This constitutional device was not in harmony with the underlying genius of the Roman constitution, and its frequent usage eventually paved the way for the empire.
"It is here that Kay exercised her gardening genius, created the 'jam lab,' and brought together frequent and joyous gatherings of family and friends," says her daughter, Cary S. Boyd.
But at his frequent best he bent his overwhelming physical presence to recombinant interpretive genius, adapting usages he had absorbed in one place and time to the social and aural realities of another.
Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot.
And if it's good enough for the chefs... Food science boffin (as the popular press would term him) and general genius Harold McGee reckons there are two secrets to successful steak cookery: "warm meat and frequent flips".
