Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violently accurate volley that had deserted him all season, and won 6-3. In the second set, he lapsed into his old erratic play, lost 4-6 to Quist's heady tennis. In the third game of the third set, Quist moved in to the net, won a brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills for booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder's aces...
...common touch. Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book by Leon Trotsky. Her opinion: "Trotsky is certainly a man of strong views...
Writing had come hard to Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
...months, gardeners had been nursing thousands of plants, arranged in West Princes Street Gardens, to spell out in brilliant flowers the names of Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven. On flag-festooned streets, shops were chock-full of tartans and souvenirs. And Edinburgh's crammed hotels had wangled enough extra rations of Scotch for more than a wee drap o' that for everyone...
...next 30 years, Kiddy was a warm friend and admirer of Pussy and Lovey, and his book explains his friendship and admiration. It doesn't explain (no one has, convincingly) why Stein-worshipers such as Thornton Wilder regard her as one of the most brilliant conversationalists of our time. It contains sections of literary approval of Author Stein's writings, but its main aim, which it fulfills very well, is to show why so many people, from Picasso to the average G.I., found Pussy and Lovey such a fascinating and lovable pair...