Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alger Hiss," he whispered huskily, "is a brilliant man. Everything he has ever done is pure, wholesome, clean, fine. Do you think that Alger Hiss would ... prostitute his great career . . . ? This isn't a case, it's an outrage...
Most stars are too faint to suit astronomers, but the sun is too bright. Astronomers have been able to analyze the sun's light and photograph the spots that cruise in mysterious cycles across its face. But until recently, their observations have been limited mostly to the brilliant surface itself. Except during total eclipses, the details of the sun's atmosphere have been lost in its glare...
...Games. From such macabre work, one might imagine Rose to be a hollow-eyed ascetic; actually he is a gay little blade whose 39 years have been a brilliant whirligig of international fun and games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...
...gaudy carousel spun itself down onto the stage floor and suddenly, over the combined voices of 30 singers, a 75-piece orchestra and the world's biggest organ, brilliant explosions banged across the stage sky. For two minutes, while Leonidoff flailed his arms like a man rooting home a winning horse, the sky erupted rockets, pinwheels and aerial bombs...
...living,giant,all,in,little,pieces, Out, of,death's,kingdom,into,shine- My, dark,hero, out, of, death's,answers, My, deep,hero, out, of,death's,mirrors: My,living,brilliant,my,living,garnet...