Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candide (based on Voltaire's satire; book by Lillian Hellman; score by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Richard Wilbur; other lyrics by John Latouche and Dorothy Parker) is a medley of the brilliant, the uneven, the exciting, the earthbound, the adventurous and the imperfectly harmonized. It is not an especially Voltairian Candide; more significantly, it is not in the least a conventional Broadway musical, for the very good reason that it plainly never sought...
...These would not be research professorships,--inspired teaching along unconventional lines would be an important phase of the work. Such posts would afford an unusual opportunity for brilliant and imaginative men: the positions by their very nature would be a challenge,--a challenge which must be answered by earnest attempts to achieve that synthesis of modern knowledge which the world demands with so much insistence...
...brilliant terror of O'Neill's atmosphere is brought out with exceptional insight and power by Hal Scott's portrayal of Jones. From a mildly tired fugitive in the first scene, he becomes an exhausted, desperate, crushed man; Jones' fear and collapse is most striking in Scott's blazing eyes, but his flashing teeth, his increasingly exhausted movements, his moans, and his nearly childish desperate voice are all highly effective...
Died. Guido Cantelli, 36, gaunt, brilliant Italian conductor, en route to New York for an American concert series and a dinner engagement with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...
...night of Talleyrand's great ball for Napoleon and Josephine, the eyes of Rémi and Corinne meet across a crowded room: "He saw her catch her breath. The chocolate dropped from her fingers. Her hand went to the base of her lovely white throat; her brilliant eyes burned, a promise to Rémi, a beckoning. He bowed, smiling." Within ten pages they are busily engaged in rumpling the sofa of Rémi's bachelor flat while Jardinier is bound for Amsterdam in his carriage with only a Russian Grand Duchess to tousle...