Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, the intellectual content of Mr. Stevenson's writings might be characterized as halfway between a brilliant social science lecture and a routine political speech: while rarely attaining the insights of the former, the author constantly displays a greater understanding and soundness of thought than is usually found in the latter. Four years after his appearance on the national political scene, Mr. Stevenson's intellect still marks him as an extraordinary politician...
DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE COVER STORY IN LAST ISSUE [FEB. 13] OF YOUR BRILLIANT MAGAZINE WHICH REVEALS PERCEPTIVE ANALYSES OF CURRENT PROBLEM AND GOALS TO BE PURSUED BY MY GOVERNMENT. I ATTACH FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THE ROLE OF A FREE AND WELL INFORMED PRESS IN STRENGTHENING GOOD WILL AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN OUR COUNTRIES AND REGARD THE TIME STORY AS A RECOGNITION OF THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF BRAZILIAN PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD PICTURE. IT IS A VERY DEFINITE CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS BRINGING TO THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE ASPIRATION OF MY GOVERNMENT AND ITS PURPOSE TO ACHIEVE WITHIN A DEMOCRATIC...
...spare time picked up a fair proficiency on two instruments-clarinet and piano-and a real professional sheen on two others-drums and bones. At almost everything his timing and coordination were exceptional-though, curiously he could never learn to dance very well-and they showed to brilliant effect whenever he was on a stage. In the sixth grade he played Rip Van Winkle in the school play, and made a hit with all the mothers. He decided he might like to be an actor, if only fate would preserve him from the fertilizer business...
...should I bother with my body," said Martin, a cerebral palsy victim and a brilliant student, "when it is so much easier to work with my mind?" Ellen, another patient, had a slight limp caused by a spinal injury at the age of two. It did not prevent her walking indoors, but she insisted: "I just can't cross the street." And Mr. Juskalian, a paraplegic, kept the hospital in an uproar by being disagreeable to everybody...
...Marxist literary critic named J. G. Quiggin and a liberal named Mark Members, two broke and brilliant university men who symbolize the United Front. They contend for the job as secretary to a rich, vain novelist of inflated reputation. Quiggin, the Marxist, wins, and triumphantly trundles the senile genius in his wheelchair at the head of a workers' demonstration in Hyde Park...