Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breakthroughs. Plans for this formidable new weapons system have been developed during the past few years under the eye of the Air Force's Missile Boss-and Minuteman Boss-Major General Bernard A. Schriever (TIME, April 1). The concept was developed and presented by a brilliant colonel, Edward N. Hall, 43, a day-after-tomorrow kind of officer with a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech and a twelve-year background in ballistic-missile science...
...Even Murder." Nathan Leopold, brilliant son of a millionaire Chicago businessman, youngest (18) graduate of the University of Chicago, lived in a strange, dark world of Nietzsche's superman-and of Richard Loeb, 18, son of another rich Chicagoan. "Their coming together," said Clarence Darrow, "was the means of their undoing. They had a weird, almost impossible relationship. Leopold, with his obsession of the superman, had repeatedly said that Loeb was his idea of the superman. He had the attitude toward him one had to his most devoted friend, or that a man has to a lover." Says Leopold...
...away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover, the notorious M. de Voltaire. When...
...looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was hired to sing the title role in his new production of Carmen...
...scheduled to air revelations about the Federal Communications Commission, and massed advance leaks to the press had hinted at sensational stuff, including a "criminal felony." Also reminiscent of the McCarthy period was the doomsday rumble in the voice of Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz. By week's end intense, brilliant Lawyer Schwartz, 35, New York University Law School professor and author of seven published books on law, had proved to be the most unlovable congressional investigation counsel since Roy Cohn...