Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICCARDO LOMBARDI, 45, a brilliant Jesuit preacher and a vigorous progressive, who agitates for land reform, better working conditions for labor, curbing of Italian capitalists...
Simone de Beauvoir had not seen so many stars since Jean-Paul Sartre crowned her Queen of Existentialism with the canopy of a bed one bibulous night in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Now her plane from Paris was over New York, whose myriad lights were so brilliant that it was as if "all the stars in the sky were rolled out over the ground." Still dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked...
...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...
...Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English lady joins battle with a simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...
...brilliant choreography and some of Mielziner's finest sets, but it doesn't quite jell. Cole Porter's songs seem properly spirited yet they are far from his best...