Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...
...Sparkle. Burdick had expected that debates at the Oxford Union would be brilliant occasions in which "wildly precocious youths, their eyes firmly fixed on the main chance in Parliament, debate with cruelly deflating epigrams and puncture windy arguments with sly thrusts." The union would be a "symbol of English upper-class intellectual ability; disenchanted, shrewd, sophisticated, always witty." Actually, he decided, the union was full of stuttering youths, "red-faced with effort ... It is not witty. It does not sparkle...
...Claire and Ivan were finally married in a swirl of cream satin, rolling organ music, popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there were married all over again with double crowns and crown bearers. A brilliant reception at the Sherry-Netherland's Chanteclair Room added the final touch of ritual...
With Yankee Veteran Allie Reynolds pitching brilliant, two-hit ball, the 66,222 fans had seen some of the tightest precision baseball since the days of Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But there was no delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they...
...brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate New Yorker named Frances Bible, who brought boyish poise and brilliant singing to the role of Octavian...