Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under his immediate control, and has disbursed many thousands of pounds of the Foreign Office's "secret funds"-money for the spending of which the law not only does not require but forbids any detailed accounting to Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic...
They attest to a brilliant sun that glinted off the dazzling white of the Panay's squat hull. They show that the attack was methodical, crafty, well-aimed. Because the cameramen (Universal's Norman Alley, Movietone's Eric Mayell) stayed on the Panay to take shots of the wreckage, they missed the machine-gunning from the air of the first boatload of survivors to head for shore, an attack that killed two already wounded seamen. The boat, holes torn in its planking by bullets, was filmed later. Because the cameramen buried their equipment in the mud when...
...Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodic Espagnole are built up of Spanish idioms; his La Valse has a Viennese, his Le Tombeau de Couperin an early 18th-Century flavor. A movement in Ma Mere I'Oye reflects Oriental idioms; a violin sonata is based on American "blues." Though a brilliant orchestrator and a resourceful stylist, he was not a great originator...
According to Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School, Landis is "one of the most brilliant legal scholars of our time." The lectures, he said, will be especially interesting because they will be a mature expression of Dean Landis' experience in Washington...
...anyone who likes powerful and brilliant choral singing there could be few greater pleasures than listening to the Helsinki University Chorus, which is now making a brief tour of the East in its first visit to America...