The obituarist for The Times wrote that "he was the amateur of the old smoking concert platform turned into a music-hall professional of genius", while Donald Zec, writing in The Daily Mirror, called him "as great an entertainer as any of the giants of the music-hall".
When Jane paints a leftwing populist candidate as a fascist without evidence, the Bolivian people swallow it with cheerful, illogical aplomb, because American campaign professionals are geniuses and Bolivians are idiots.
He was a thorough professional, and his genius lay not in impersonating characters but in personifying them.
It was 27 years since he had left Dublin and arrived in England determined to set himself up as a professional man of genius – which is to say a Superman.
Byron, a business columnist for the Post, is most persuasive when he describes her professional maneuverings particularly her genius for using any partnership to her advantage, from her marriage to her Kmart deal.
The irony is that Partch himself was sometimes suspected of being a professional originator, a paper genius who tried to write his way into history with outré gestures.
"To pull off that level of success not once but twice is testament to the extraordinary creative genius and professional rigour of all involved in both the production and distribution of these films".
But the Actors' Studio style would prove enormously influential in its stress on inner truths to be mined by the actor - indeed, it was a method that made a cult of the brooding actor, turning him from professional interpreter to creative genius (for good and ill).
In his new book, "Mozart: A Cultural Biography," the scholar Robert W. Gutman tries to strip away such contradictory legends to give the reader a down-to-earth portrait of Mozart as a highly professional musician who used his genius to assimilate and transform the artistic currents of the day.
Courts were viewed as "a professional arena only for special geniuses," he added.
