Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner, Vassily Smyslov, made generous acknowledgment of Reshevsky's skill: "He is the greatest player of the West-a tough little man full of brilliant ideas." Then Smyslov went back to Moscow, back into training for Champion Botvinnik, who no longer has to worry about radio blare and cigar smoke. In Russia, during chess matches, smoke and talk are forbidden...
Miguel de Unamuno, a brilliant man with flashing eyes who wrote novels, plays and poems, was long considered, with Ortega y Gasset, Spain's most influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector...
Some critics who like their guitars complete questioned the truncated treatment ("Is Colin a sadist?" asked one solemnly). But they unanimously praised his brilliant draftsmanship and his tender use of color. Wrote Le Peintre: "A great artist . . . Behind his playfulness lies a lot of meditation and some particular mystery which is Colin's own invention...
...sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel...
...against Dartmouth in the third quarter Saturday. Coming up fast to complete the stop is defensive halfback JIM DONOHUE (49). The Crimson captain completed three out of eight passes for 88 yards, including one for a touchdown to sophomore halfback Dexter Lewis. A clipping penalty wiped out Clasby's brilliant 103-yard kickoff return in the final quarter, and the score ended 20 to 14 in Harvard's favor...