Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the camera's greater scope, the restrictions of a single set become very apparent. Director Fred Zinnemann, who used his medium superbly in High Noon with sweeping shots of empty streets and barren railroad track, has in Member of the Wedding simply filmed a play. Despite the brilliant performances of Julie Harris and Ethel Waters, the result seems curiously static and two-dimensional...
...away, it is one-fourth as strong). But the eye is a lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that is used in accurate vision...
...Nicola Rossi-Lemeni; Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Tullio Serafin; Victor, 3 LPs). A fine performance and elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
...Bertrand Russell . . . was small, dark, brisk, with a lively air and a hyena laugh. According to some people he was the ugliest man they had ever seen ... He had birth, genius, learning, indefatigable zeal and energy, brilliant intelligence and absolute honesty and courage ... Yet on the whole, relative to his capacities, he was a failure. He petered...
Fifty years ago, Henry James wrote The Beast in the Jungle, a masterful short novel about an aging man who discovers too late, that life has slipped by him. This week 27-year-old George Lanning publishes This Happy Rural Seat, a brilliant first novel in which he spins some subtle variations on the Jamesian theme of the unlived life. A onetime staff member of the highbrow Kenyan Review, Lanning shows a gift for creating complex human beings that marks him as one of the ablest new novelists in some time...