Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's next two goals were the work of Flaman's brilliant partner, sophomore Chris Gurry. A minute after Mueller's counter, Gurry stickhandled the length of the ice, ignoring the Huskies' slashing, and dropped the puck at the crease for an easy shot by sophomore wing Ron Mark...
Harvard's John Whitbeck and Cornell's Jim Levin took turns throwing racquets and taking spills. And amidst their anguished "oh's," "golly's," and "aw come on's" and bursts of applause from the spectators, Levin overcame Whitbeck's brilliant comeback effort...
...symphonies and chamber works whose freshness remains remarkably vivid. The Prince gave him a crack orchestra, and Haydn taught it a dramatic musical vocabulary unknown before his time. When it pleased him, he would begin a symphony (Nos. 22, 49) with a long slow movement instead of the expected brilliant allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony No. 80, the orchestra comes in on the offbeat...
Hoffmann's preference for a humanistic approach to political science harmonizes well with other facets of his personality. He seems genuinely excited by fellow scholars, Harvard undergraduates, and his friends, such as Bundy, despite his stance on the war, and French sociologist Raymond Aron ("the two most brilliant men I know"). He likes music, though he can't make any. "I don't see why I should play an instrument badly when I can listen to someone else do it well, so I have a very good record collection...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...