Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from writing a tone poem, Verdi wrote brilliant accompaniment, using a lot of strings and woodwinds to give the music an uncanny gossamer, translucent sound. Verdi always leaves the range where the voices are pitched free from interference, so that the audience can hear nearly every word of the text...
Harvard's brilliant cross country team goes after the East's top prize--the IC4A championship--at New York's Van Cortlandt Park Monday afternoon. Harvard has never won the IC4A's, and the squad will be facing the toughest competition of the year, but if ever a Crimson outfit should rate a shot at the title, this...
...first Ivy non-loss of the year. Phipps completed six of seven passes in the second quarter and threw a crucial two-point conversion pass to Greg Kontos after time had run out for the half. Neither team scored over the last thirty minutes, but only because of some brilliant Brown defensive play late in the fourth quarter...
...Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A last week, the cause of all the commotion, America's mighty Saturn 5, spewed brilliant flames and rose majestically on a flight that revitalized the lagging Apollo program and raised hopes that the U.S. may yet land men on the moon before 1970. Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust and one of the loudest sounds ever produced by man,* the first-stage engines lifted the 3,000-ton, 363-foot-high vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,100 m.p.h. only 21 minutes after liftoff. During...
...finest story, The Fault of M. Balzac, Maurois brings the full weight of irony crashing down on a brilliant but ambitious scholar. "A really distinguished mistress would spare me ten years of setbacks and sordid intrigue," says Lecadieu. He gets one, a politician's wife. He also gets caught. Exiled from Paris, forced to marry a worn-out woman, he ends up a wreck teaching Latin texts to schoolboys. He can't even remember what his ambition...