Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article and the box on Nabokov were positively brilliant. They had all the best features of writing. They were condensed, informative, amusing and so forth but they were something more: eloquent. The erudition, laughter and whimsy of Nabokov himself seems to have rubbed off on your reporters and writers...
...Everyone agrees that Nabokov is brilliant. However, to this admirer of his style, his novels are merely the best told dirty jokes the world has ever known...
...blandest, most faceless cast of characters of the post-World War II era. Even Keating is a rank amateur compared to his predecessor, Chester Bowles. At the purple and ermine Court of St. James's, Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg, who is inarticulate and inexperienced in diplomacy, replaced a brilliant and popular Foreign Service veteran, David K. E. Bruce. At the U.N., Charles Yost, an able but relatively obscure professional, moved into the chair once warmed by such noted men as Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg...
...protagonist is "mothlike"-attracted through life by his memory of the brilliant colors of his first love. His story is a quest to recapture the exhiliaration of the original experience. But sudden setbacks perplex him: "Last night the little girl walked in and handed me my notice. They voted me out of her league and I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed."His boyishly defiant recovery retains a quality of quiet longing: "So I'm a gonna join the cowboys and shoot me some outlaws (it's something to do since I'm out here anyway) but quit it all, give...
...Moth Confesses is a sensitive characterization by Gant, a beautiful performance by the Neon Philharmonic and a brilliant production by Saussy. The album has a spendid cover and a salutation-"Borges forever"-to one of Saussy's literary heroes...