Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sebastian Dangerfield. Balthazar ("possession of treasure") is sincere, decent, loving and wealthy. Yet he is plagued by the same consuming unhappiness as Dangerfield. The tone of the whole book, in fact, is unlike that of The Ginger Man: Balthazar B is a wistful tale, and though lightened by brilliant flashes of humor, it always maintains an essentially sorrowful vision of life. Written in the traditional mode of bildungsroman, a story of youthful education, it is nevertheless not a picaresque rogue story. Rather, Balthazar B resembles in theme the modern novel of disenchantment and alienation, suffused as it is with...
...five-hour keynote speech, belying speculation that he is incapacitated by ill-health. Throughout the Congress, he received tributes surpassing anything that has been said about a Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Uzbekistan Party Secretary Sharaf R. Rashidov, for example, rhapsodized over his leader's "excessive modesty and brilliant talent, his spiritual beauty and personal charm...
...Lausanne, Switzerland, where his father was a pharmacist. The family lived in the house of famed Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet. "Stravinsky and MiIhaud used to visit often," Abravanel recalls. "I played piano four-hands with Stravinsky as a lark." He went to Berlin to study with a brilliant young composer named Kurt Weill. In 1933 both men fled Nazi Germany for Paris. There, Abravanel became a ballet conductor, performing the premiere of the Balanchine-Brecht-Weill ballet-with-song, The Seven Deadly Sins...
Cleary will be going all the way with Petrovek, who played a brilliant game against UNH. And Petro won't be thinking back to the dark ages. "If we win (tonight), it's going to be awfully hard for them not to send us to Denver for the NCAAs...
...years ago, all that eighth-seeded RPI and its star goaltender Don "The Razor" Cutts had going for it was that curse on the Wildcats. And sure enough, Cutts was brilliant and RPI snuck past the top-seeded UNH squad, 7-6, in an overtime shocker in Durham...