Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess of Windsor divulged to the readers of Vogue that the life of a brilliant international hostess is strewn with heartaches and pitfalls. "Any dinner of more than 16 people," wrote the Duchess, "I consider enormous. More than eight persons means no souffle-always a melancholy omission . . . Anybody who entertains a lot runs the risk of falling into a rut... The hostess who relies upon memory alone may find herself repeating to friends precisely the same dinner, down to the entremets, that she provided six months before. It is a great pity that Mr. Thomas Watson's efficient International...
...battery of clerks outside take pleasure in calling "God's Office." The only thing he had consented to do was to write a report entitled The State of the University ("Down the Hill with Hutchins," he calls it), a faithful and not particularly modest account of his first brilliant and stormy 20 years...
...Simply "Nuts." He was a brilliant man who could read a page at a glance and had a passion for German novels. He was also a man in a hurry, and his letters -"Dear Flash: I do. Sincerely yours ...; Dear Reuben: i. No. Ever yours . . .; Dear The Central Administration: By God I am. Sincerely yours . . ."-added to the legend. "Stop bothering me," he would scribble across a memo. More often his comment would be a simple "nuts...
Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
...always this way. In the days when "a particularly desperate scrimmage flattened the ball into a disk of limp rubber"--in the days when the New York Times said that the "Harvard punting was immense, the handling of kicks without a flaw, the plunging irresistable and the end running brilliant, all in the same game," students were "football-conscious." Old CRIMSONS report that in 1909 over 1500 students cheered the scrimmage the week before the Yale game...