Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with that the onetime Premier of Russia, and Nikita Khrushchev's onetime convivial traveling companion, shuffled back to his seat and the brightest fate he could hope for-oblivion...
...often squalid business. As much as any of their Chinese characters, R. & H. have family feeling. Since they have a permanent production outfit (unlike most other theater men, who fold up after each show), they have given employment to generations of performers. Example: one of Flower Drum's brightest young dancers, Patrick Adiarte, 15, started at eight as one of the younger children in The King and I, kept on playing the parts of older boys as he grew; meanwhile, his mother was a dancer in The King and I. As much as any of the Chinese in Flower...
...with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five minutes over after-dinner coffee in a crowded room.) Result of the Boston change: Don't Marry Me, one of the brightest numbers in the show...
Giovanni Batista Montini, 61, universally respected throughout Italy as the brightest and busiest of prelates, is the leading new pastoral cardinal, although most of his experience has been in Vatican administration. The son of a well-to-do Brescia lawyer and member of Parliament, Montini entered the Vatican State Secretariat in 1924, where he served for 30 years, becoming (with Tardini) the late Pope's Pro-Secretary of State and one of his closest advisers. He is said to have begged off a red hat in Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made...
...Tapies, brightest young (35) man to come out of Spain since those electric uncles of modern art, Picasso, Dali and Miro, allowed that his picture represented "nothing at all." His pigments were mixed with "something like cement-it's almost like relief work." La Pintura does in fact suggest the Costa Brava's austere spaciousness-rocks, sea and fishing boats...