Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ceremonial Sefs. The eye-popping fact was that Saudi Arabia's King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee...
...steadying influence," one of his old associates once called Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed. "He isn't the most brilliant member of the court, but he has good judgment." Other lawyers talked about Mr. Justice Reed's prodigious seven-day workweeks, his methodical and careful briefs, his success in keeping an even legal keel through 19 Supreme Court years. "No one could say," a former law clerk summed up, "that anybody was mad at Stanley Reed...
...distinction between effectiveness and goodness follows from this belief. Effectiveness is a measurement of degree to which a book affects the readers, goodness is a measurement of the way in which it affects him. It is perfectly legistimate to contend that Norman Vincent Peale is a brilliant but pernicious author...
...Lennie. Music was not Lennie's only talent. He was brilliant in almost every subject in school; and when he turned 13 his body all at once caught up with his mind. "It was wonderful," he says. "One day I was a scrawny little thing that everybody could beat up, and the next time I looked around I was the biggest boy in the class. I could run faster, jump higher, dive better than almost any body, and all the girls wanted to feel my muscles." His sense of relief was so terrific that it became a kind of constitutional...
...soprano. In his most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece, his best so far, in Bernstein's estimation. Still remembered is his brilliant musical, On the Town (1944), in which he fairly knocked the eyebrows off the highbrows by his combi nation of popular style and serious technique. Earlier attempts notwithstanding, Bernstein was the first to synthesize serious music and jazz with real ease...