Or: "His life was the triumph of flippancy over genius, and sometimes the triumph of genius over flippancy".
This is the triumph of genius; that, surviving the centuries, enlightens the world.
A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War.By Ronald Fierstein.American Bar Association; 644 pages; $35 and £22.99.
In Rischin's telling, the Quartet is less a triumph of individual genius and more a collective creation.
He was a man driven by a colossal ego and a genuine sense of compassion for the powerless and the poor: a man who, in the weeks and months after the assassination, was able, in Mr. Caro's opinion, to overcome his own weaknesses and baser instincts — not for long but "long enough" — to act in a fashion that was "a triumph not only of genius but of will".
I like to regard his victory in what was their first direct encounter as the triumph of character over genius.
There was hardly anything more irritating to Kirstein than the assumption, common in later years, that the triumph of Balanchine's genius in America was inevitable.
The moment foreshadows the triumph of Cellini, the genius life force, over conventional law and order -- a quintessential Romantic theme, here symbolized by a pre-Romantic, pre-Classical, pre-Baroque, pre-Renaissance device the composer had learned in school alongside his dullest classmates.
Coming at a time when monsters of ambition like Julian Schnabel, Anselm Kiefer and Jeff Koons roamed the artscape, Ms. Bloom's construction nicely skewered the cult of genius, the triumph of moneyed taste and the vanity of the excessively privileged.
This season, for the first time I can recall, the talk in the newsletters is not the usual tales of world-beating triumph by genius children, but of jobs lost, homes in jeopardy, children whose jobs have vanished and who are on the road looking for work.
Boulez triumphed as a programmer and conductor of genius because he made 20th-century music, so baffling to many, make sense for audiences.
