Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single network ran away with journalistic honors. All three had their share of beats; CBS cut off Sherman Adams (who had just addressed himself to the "millions watching TV") to bring viewers an absorbing, technically brilliant scene from inside the airport control tower and a radarscope-view of Ike's Columbine winging toward the city. Equally expert and alert, NBC's mobile unit rode herd on the President's motorcade all the way to the St. Francis Hotel downtown. Next day NBC beat the other webs to the President's first "live" press conference (film versions...
Record companies are today practically forced into the arms of the modernists. They have exhausted the "standard" repertory of late 18th century and 19th century music and even the cool counterpoint of the preclassical masters. Some of the moderns prove to be profitable indeed. The reason: contemporary composers favor brilliant or unusual orchestral effects, and such effects are just dandy for showing off hi-fi phonograph equipment. Thus the battle of modern music appears to have reached its turning point, and the composers who pioneered during the '20s and '30s and their followers are about to enjoy victory...
These were the most brilliant flowers of Bloomsbury, the domain of London's intelligentsia that clusters around the British Museum-where Garnett's grandfather was an official-and whose hothouse air Constance (Garnett's mother, translator of War and Peace) breathed into her son. In the present volume Garnett, whom his friends all called "Bunny", tells about World War I, but this is a war reminiscence of a special kind. For Bloomsbury's Bunny was a conscientious objector. In 1914 Rupert, who was soon to write...
Graceful and accurate rendition, rich and brilliant color are the obvious attributes of such work. Children and connoisseurs see in them something more important, a magic, as of make-believe caught in mid-fancy and securely held...
Other parts of the diary record episodes in the war, seen as if by the brief, brilliant light of a phosphorous flare. A comrade dies before an SS firing squad; the Germans try to drive Hypnos' detachment out of hiding by burning a forest; and, in a two-line episode, there is the soldier who, "between the two shots that decided his fate, had time to call a fly 'Madam...