Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more humanised and less adolescent and less lonesome went to Radcliffe." Two years later, Josephine Sherwood (The Solid Gold Cadillac) Hull followed; then came Helen Keller, '04, Novelists Rachel Field, '18, and Helen Howe, '27, and a host of scholars and scientists. But to all these brilliant entrances and exits, Harvard itself chose to pretend indifference...
...Crimson missed its best chance to score during this period when penalties left B.C. with just four men on the ice. B.C. was given the same bonus in the final period but brilliant goaltending by Flynn and the defensive work, of Manchester and Cooledge prevented any scoring...
Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). A brilliant composer of the younger generation, Massachusetts' Harold Shapero, 34, has an ear for bright sonorities, a gift for formal construction, and a fascination for bygone masterpieces that has caused controversy. This attractive work, completed in 1947, parallels his efforts in Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky styles, resembles Prokofiev more than any other model...
...like H-bombs. They dug craters, sometimes cracked the crust and let lava from the hot interior flow out to form "seas" and plains. Later the moon cooled and wrinkled. The last of the satellites threw up mountainous walls of rubble, scattered giant boulders for miles around, and etched brilliant white craters on the brittle crust...
...pursued him, he either laughed at it or grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality, Wilde explained exactly-and sentimentally-why his brilliant career ended so ignominiously. "What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate...