Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Andrew Parker, 29, lanky father of four, has made a brilliant end run that skirts nearly all the technical thrashing and rehashing that bedevil Manhattan painters. His subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney...
...Women! (20th Century-Fox) is a dull consulting-room comedy, but a brilliant illustration of what is wrong with most jokes about psychoanalysis. People who have not laid themselves on the couch are hardly in a position to get the joke, while people who get up from it have generally lost their sense of humor on the subject. Nonetheless, Edward Chodorov's play had a startling success in Manhattan, where the largest group of U.S. psychoanalysts lives and practices-apparently as a sort of cut-rate abreaction for those who agree with Sam Goldwyn that "anybody who would...
Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To the usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...
...severely disheartening shock for me to read about the plight of the Radcliffe freshman in a recent CRIMSON. But fortunately, I have risen to the crisis with a brilliant solution...
...Crimson, with five brilliant intercollegiate players in the top five positions and an inspired Henry Cortesi at sixth singles, swept the first six matches, giving the varsity a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League with Yale and Princeton...