Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Institute is highly gratified by the brilliant article on TV western shows [March 30], which bears out what we have said for several years: at last, the American people demanded and got their own folk drama on television...
...year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroad-and what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has often sounded like one. A brilliant lawyer and civil servant before World War II, an organizer of the Gaullist Resistance during the war, Debré after the war became known in the French Senate for his scathing attacks on the leaders of the Fourth Republic, his nationalistic outbursts against European integration, and his attacks on France...
Butterfly Under Glass. First done by the Bolshoi in 1946, Romeo and Juliet seems to Western eyes a curious dramatic anachronism, a bit like a brilliant butterfly under glass. As much emotion-laden pantomime as dance, it retraces virtually every twist and turn of Shakespeare's familiar plot in 13 scenes before a series of sumptuous but often ponderously literal sets. The heavily orchestrated score, boldly conducted without score by Conductor Yuri Faier (he is almost blind, can see only the dancers' silhouettes), is unabashedly romantic, gently moving in its lyric flights, occasionally distracting when the onstage movements...
...main reason behind this paucity of hits was a brilliant effort by Quaker pitcher Weed. the day before the game, Shepard mentioned that if coach Jack McCloskey started Weed, Pennsylvania would have a slight edge. This prediction unfortunately proved quite true. Equipped with an excellent curve, which was his main pitch, Weed had the Crimson batters constantly off balance, and the Quakers had little trouble with the resultant pop flies and grounders...
...Diary of Anne Frank. A massive and moving epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. A fine performance by Newcomer Millie Perkins as Anne, and brilliant direction by George Stevens...