Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McKay was a successful Salem Chevrolet dealer, served two terms (1949-53) as one of Oregon's best governors. Morse was a brilliant dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. McKay bows to no man in his devotion to Dwight Eisenhower ("the greatest President in history"). Morse bows to no man in his hatred of Eisenhower ("the most dangerous man who has been in the White House"). McKay is a fumbling public speaker ("The issues aren't important in this election; it's the votes")-but he has no peer at mixing, on first-name...
During the past two years, Britain has had four Ministers of Defense. Last week a fifth took the job. Out went wealthy lawyer Sir Walter Monckton, a brilliant negotiator as Churchill's postwar Labor Minister but no great shakes at Defense. He has been in ill health, and will be given the sinecure job of Paymaster General...
After several months of shy peeping at her over the hedgerows, the critics of two London dailies decided that Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, now making a movie with Sir Laurence Olivier in London, is everything her pressagents ever said she was-and more. Their consensus: a brilliant comedienne. Having previously all but ignored Marilyn's presence in Britain, the austere Times showed its rare enthusiastic side and proclaimed of Marilyn's performance in Bus Stop (TIME. Sept. 3): "What a partner she would have been for Chaplin in his heyday!" Thrummed the Daily Mail: "She reaffirms her position...
...beginning, to such paintings as Trees at L'Estaque (see opposite), which is one of the first Cubist paintings. While Braque was creating it. Picasso was following the same route. So the two joined forces, as Braque puts it, "like mountaineers roped together," and in five brilliant years of cubism proceeded to tear down some 400 years of art convention and mount the 20th century revolution...
...Cart, written in 1929, was perhaps the last of Shaw's plays to kick up any real dust in the theater. Indeed, it marks the point in his career when Shaw began to collect dust as well as kick it up, began to seem stale as well as brilliant. Less the work of a master than of a past master, The Apple Cart still had vital things to say and on occasion a great gift for saying them. There was still the fun of watching a superb showman up to his old tricks-but some of them did seem...