Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brilliance & Bluntness. The Army insisted that Gavin's decision to retire was wholly his own. Said Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, who spent 30 minutes trying to dissuade him: "We cannot afford to lose one of our most brilliant officers, one of the most brilliant we ever had." Gavin, who will be eligible for retirement in March, explained with his customary bluntness: "I am getting out, frankly, because I feel I can do more for our country's defense effort out of uniform than in. I have spent 6½ years out of the past nine in the Pentagon...
Columbia, the dark horse in the Ivy League this season, is a young, inexperienced squad that is in the process of rebuilding after the graduation of its brilliant All-Ivy League stars Chet Forte and Ted Dwyer. The only player remaining from last year's Lion five is 6 ft. 5 in. center Rudy Milkey...
...Deathwatch last year, brilliant directing and acting diverted attention from the fact that the play itself was rather tawdry, small, and unimpressive. The Maids is not much more of a play, although it adds to a prison-like atmosphere a perennially interesting theatrical problem: the probing of possibilities of reality vs. illusion...
David Lean's direction is marred only by too slow a pace: the film did not need to run quite so close to three hours. He made brilliant use of the genuine tropical jungle against which the film was made. Scenes of marching men, jungles, hills and rivers are all tremendously effective in their CinemaScopic splendor, and the bridge goes up with a rousing blast. Moreover, every frame is closely bound up with the story: spectacle complements action instead of interfering with...
Unquestionably, in the deadly give and take of the cold war, the high score for the year belongs to Russia. And unquestionably, the Man of the Year was Russia's stubby and bald, garrulous and brilliant ruler: Nikita Khrushchev...