Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly moved up the power line and today, by virtue of his wife's cozy relations with the Soviet embassy, bosses the government. In a beautiful pavilion near Bucharest, in the formal royal park where King Carol's Magda Lupescu once frolicked, attractive, dark-eyed Ljuba holds brilliant Thursday night soirees, splicing her champagne with politics...
...Boston's Dr. Robert Edward Gross, then 33, operated successfully to eliminate a patent ductus arteriosus-a tubular connection between pulmonary artery and aorta that normally closes soon after birth. Falling back on Alexis Carrel's brilliant experiments in the early 1900s, which showed that arteries if handled properly can be cut apart and stitched together again, with or without an intervening graft, Gross next developed an operation to cut out an abnormal narrowing (coarctation) of the aorta...
...profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play, however, is the totally unnecessary last act, which serves only to confuse...
That problem concerns a physician's choice of whether to cure a patient or to let him die. The patient, dying of tuberculosis, is a brilliant young artist who is also a detestable human being. The doctor is the discoverer of a miraculously effective cure, which, however, only he knows how to apply. Since his clinic holds only one more available bed, he is forced to decide between healing the artist or another doctor, who is not particularly talented but a good and dedicated man. He ultimately picks the fine man rather than fine art--but that unhappy last...
Best described as an eighteenth century gentleman, Professor von Blanckenhagen has the reputation of being a brilliant conversationalist with a ready and sardonic wit, sometimes almost playful. He is an astute critic of his adopted country and is as firm in his standards of political and public behavior as he is in his standards of art. Yet his friends assert that one of the most remarkable things about this rather enigmatic man is his ability to laugh at himself and at the world. With a combination of strictly disciplined yet imaginative logic and endearing generosity, interest and vitality, there...