Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time, Author de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy. Brilliant, but rarefied, the book will appeal especially to those who like to watch a drama of ideas played out against the baroque backdrop of 17th century Italian intrigue...
...difficult to see why many professors of law supported Schmitz, for Alfred J. Schweppe, former dean of Washington's law school and now president of the state bar association, had already led the way. Supporting Schmitz' "sound discretion" not to appoint Oppenheimer, Schweppe wrote: "There are brilliant men in the penitentiaries, yet I venture to say that not many of Dr. Schmitz' critics would advocate their being selected ..." He concluded that he was "pretty much fed up with illogical antics of some of the Harvard, Yale and other professors...
...Maurice Couve de Murville is the youngest French ambassador to come to the U.S. since the late famed Jules Jusserand arrived in 1902. He is also a brilliant diplomat and a candid analyst of his country's political ailments. Last week, in a Manhattan speech, Ambassador Couve de Murville expressed some bluntly realistic thoughts...
...great names of Victorian science, philosophy and theology find a place in Biographer Irvine's brilliant study. Thomas Henry Huxley, who was Darwin's right-hand man and champion, actually takes up half the book. And yet, as Huxley himself readily admitted, it is Charles Darwin who dominates the scene...
Faure was thus making ratification, in effect, a vote of confidence, giving to the Senate a power it does not formally possess-to depose a Premier. The stubby little Premier pressed on, words tumbling out in a brilliant display of impromptu rebuttal. Then he stepped down amidst a crash of applause. Superbly timed, his outburst checked the gathering emotional opposition. To those who complained that the French will was cowed by allies' threats, Pinay retorted: "The French will? Why should it only be revealed in the power to say no-no to our own proposal...