Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...amid the show's lavish hurly-burly and piling one thing on top of another. Jo Mielziner's sets count for less than his brilliant methods of shifting them. Tamiris has devised some colorful choreography, but it is often so unlooked-for and unneeded as to seem less like a dance than a kind of dividend. Fanny is built like Actor Slezak without being nearly so light on its feet...
Wearing Cecil Beaton's bright costumes, traversing a brilliant Beaton drawing-room, the Lunts play Quadrille to the hilt. The only trouble is that there is no blade. The play's light volleys of wit come from a Coward who only plays doubles and no longer will go to the net; from a Coward who has written more like some fondly reminiscing oldster than a mocking enfant terrible-and with an oldster's fearful garrulousness. But however unthinkable Quadrille would be without the Lunts, with them Coward's very mildness is not altogether unwelcome...
...just express grateful thanks? I thought the review was a brilliant piece of work and it was very good of TIME to publish it. I am now going to read Study of History, not because I want to, but because I feel I must. DONALD H. McCULLOUGH London...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week, 98 paintings from 17th century Holland went on display. The brilliant survey was borrowed from museums and private collections across Europe and the U.S., will be shown next year at Toledo and Toronto. As the color reproductions on the following pages demonstrate, the exhibition's minor pieces and masterpieces alike were made by men who had the skill and will to paint precisely what they saw. The Dutch of that day evidently saw things in sharp focus, with a calm objectivity foreign to subjective 20th century eyes...