Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope Pius XII was presented with a little token of esteem by 700 cheering motor scooter enthusiasts: a shiny, bright blue motor scooter...
Gleam of Brass. He mounted an unshaded wooden reviewing stand and 20,000 men, led by the famed 82nd Airborne Division's band, poured past in his honor. They marched in ranks of twelve, brass and helmet liners gleaming, brand new company guidons bright in the hot sunlight. Behind them rumbled their tanks, guns and trucks...
...subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with its last fruits in her lap. Ex-Cubist François Desnoyer was represented by a solidly constructed harbor picture in colors as bright and brassy as boat whistles...
...inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that it grows tiresome; its scenes are all played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good a time. As the earl, 79-year-old Veteran A. E. Matthews is brilliantly unemphatic. expertly throwing away a great many lines that the author refused...
Perhaps it's special arrangements of college medleys, or balance in the brasses, or sleek-toned reeds, or something else technical. Or perhaps it's something more. It doesn't matter to the thousands who can count on at least one bright spot in a Soldiers Field afternoon; to the fan-letter writers or to bandsmen alumni who covet their former membership, and come back to prove that they...