Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security clearance be restored, is professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago. A product of a Pennsylvania farm, Evans has found himself in difficult positions all his life (from trapping skunks as a boy to testing explosives as a soldier and a scientist). Recognized as a brilliant teacher and a foremost U.S. expert on explosives, Evans has retired twice, and is still working. In 1946 he retired as head of Northwestern University's chemistry department. Then, in 1947, at his country home near Lancaster, Pa., he received a wire asking him to join the staff at Loyola...
General. After the war, Ely was promoted to brigadier general in charge of infantry training. From 1949 to 1953, he represented France on the Standing Group of NATO. Ely's U.S. associates considered him a good administrator and a shrewd but not brilliant officer; he liked to immerse himself in Greek philosophy and long periods of silence. He lives austerely, eats sparingly, conserves his strength and is considered to be in poor health. As French chief of staff. Ely visited Washington in March, where one unimpressed U.S. official nicknamed him "the poodle." Sent on a post-Dienbienphu tour...
...sees in Garbo sober." Tynan sees little to respect in fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...
...great merit of this biography by Novelist Nancy Mitford that it excels in depicting both these worlds-the brilliant, romantic showcase and the recessed secret world of power...
Firmly, calculating, she worked her way into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid "Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees," when 35-year-old Louis and his courtiers masked themselves with headdresses of yew branches. One poor lady of the court allowed herself to be seduced by a right-royal-looking "yew tree"-only to find on her return to the ballroom that...