Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news. Anyone named Vice President would obviously be under grooming to take over the presidency, currently held by the Benefactor's brother and puppet, Hector Trujillo. Approving letters, marveling at the "brilliant suggestion of the Benefactor," began to appear, day after day, in the paper...
Charles A. Lindbergh, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (for last year's The Spirit of St. Louis, his brilliant, present-tense narrative of his 1927 transatlantic flight), put on his Air Force uniform (his first time out of mufti since before World War II) to become an active brigadier general. Long an exponent of a harder, faster U.S. military punch, Lindbergh will make a secret survey of the Air Force's super-secret guided-missile program...
Josef Albers' Homage to the Square: "Ascending," at the brand-new Whitney Museum on 54th Street, looks almost identical in composition with the squares Albers has been painting for some time. A brilliant teacher (and chairman of Yale University's Department of Design), Albers considers all his own work experimental. By painting squares within squares of varying colors, he achieves an endless variety of odd, beautiful and sometimes disturbing effects. "I push my colors," he explains soberly. "I want to push a green so it looks red." When students complain that to "push" colors Albers limits himself...
...crowd there would be no disagreement on one thing --it was a wonderful way to end a season. But Saturday, Cambridge was a city of heroes, and there was great disagreement over just who was the star of the victory. For some it was Bob Cochran, who played a brilliant defensive game at end and caught the winning pass; for others it was the middle of the Crimson line, exemplified by the all-Eastern guard Bill Molgs; still others said it was sophomore backs Jim Jeslin or Tony Glanelly; and for the Yale linebackers it was probably blocking back Jerry...
Individually, Cochran was the afternoon's star. Besides the sensational catch for the Crimson's second touchdown, the senior end played brilliant defensive football all afternoon, rushing the Yale passers, or limiting the Elis on their favorite play--a pitch or keep quarterback option play around right...