Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ziers in southern France, the son of a French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the Paris Faculty of Law, where he met another brilliant young law student, Pierre Mendès-France. In 1931 Faure married tall, blonde, elegant Lucie Meyer, daughter of a prosperous silk merchant, took his old friend Mendès on the honeymoon-a months-long tour of Russia (Mendès took sick, was sent home), during which Faure...
...must possess not only virtuosity, but a delicate rapport in ensemble; not only forceful rhythmic drives, but the courage (and control) to bring a lengthy phrase to a hushed and protracted close. Mr. and Mrs. kohn seemed aware of the immensity of their task. Much of the playing was brilliant as well as subtle. Yet on the whole, the performances of the Schubert works left too many problems unsolved or only half-heartedly assaulted...
Second period play was so slappy it brought occasional jeera from the Garden crowd of 5,600 and probably rated as the dullest the varsity has engaged in this season. Cleary's opening goal at 1:20 was the Crimson's only offensive move until the brilliant center scored again with his 70-feeter at the start of the third stanza...
...philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
...that it is all Willis Wayde's fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston. His father, a brilliant, roving engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes. But he can never really relax...