Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, Zhivago and the Russian intellectuals he symbolizes are Dostoyevsky's Ivan all over again. Just as the murder of the Father Karamazov was a consequence of Ivan's ideas, so was the Revolution a consequence of the (at once brilliant and naive) Russian intellectual ferment, a century in the coagulating. And just as Ivan was unable to face the practical implications of those ideas, to accept his own involvment in reality, and went insane; so Zhivago and his ilk came out of the October Revolution bewildered and shaken into silence...
Some thought it possible that after a month's rest at the kibbutz, Hlasko might change his mind about returning to Poland. Actress Sonja Ziemann indignantly insisted he would never go back. But the consensus of Polish exiles in West Germany was that if brilliant, helpless, homeless Marek Hlasko does not go back to Poland this time, he will sooner or later...
Ordinary window glass is made by drawing a wide ribbon of glass vertically from a reservoir of syrupy melted glass. It cools in the air and has a brilliant "fire finish." But the process of drawing produces stresses that make flaws and irregularities. To make the glass smooth enough for mirrors, auto windshields and store windows, manufacturers are forced to an elaborate process of grinding and polishing glass sheets on both surfaces. The plate glass made in this way is expensive, and its surface lacks fire brilliance...
Doubtless, much will depend on the performance of Harrington, who currently is the second most proficient scorer in the Ivy League. Harrington had a brilliant season as a sophomore, but fell off badly last year, due to illness. Restored to health once again this winter, he started slowly, but in the three or four games immediately preceding exams, began to show his old-time form...
...Crimson is a slim favorite here--assuming, as always, that it has had sufficient time to shake off the trauma incurred in two losses immediately prior to the exam period. The first of these was an 11-1 shellacking at the hands of a brilliant squad of professional amateurs from the Soviet Union; the second, an unexpected humiliation before lowly Providence College...