Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talent for Forgery. Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager...
...audience opinion. The newspaper critic, says Kerr, "finds that if he's seen a 'soso' play or a 'nice little show,' he can't say it that way in print. He has to come from the opening and say it's brilliant, it's wonderful." As a result, many a producer and director charges the critics with too often being "shallow" or "dull." "When a critic praises a play," says the Mirror's Coleman, "he is a wonderful critic . . . When he pans one, he is destructive, monstrous, unintelligent." Director Margaret Webster...
...school suddenly broke into a commencement exercise to deliver an unprecedented tribute: "We of the eighth grade want to express our appreciation to Mr. Pusey for giving us our love of literature." "He was without question," says President Henry Wriston of Brown University, then president of Lawrence, "the most brilliant young teacher I have ever known...
...that has long been unfamiliar in the academic world. Today the U.S. university has fallen heir to much that once belonged to her peers in Europe. In the '30s, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in the modern world repeat the brilliant leadership of medieval Paris." If the U.S. university does rise, says Nathan Pusey, it will not be by curtailing its pursuit of truth, "no matter how unpopular," but by carrying on the pursuit more fully...
...trying to beat the clock, may begin to feel like getting out to push. At 119 minutes, this might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book by revealing when she smiles a dental arch...