Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steal, seduce maidens and sell offices, kill and make war. But the morals of the clergy improved, and the wild freedom of Renaissance Italy was tamed to a decent conformity with the pretensions of mankind . . . All in all, it was an astonishing recovery, one of the most brilliant products of the Protestant Reformation...
...consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
Billy Prince, a handsome, hustling man who hates offices, was born William Wood, the son of a fairly prosperous New York insurance executive. At ten, he became the protege of a distant cousin, the late Frederick Henry Prince, a brilliant, eccentric New England speculator who liked to boast that he had built four railroads and had financial control at one time or another over 46 more. "Cousin Fred's" own young son Norman, of France's famed Lafayette Escadrille of U.S. flyers in World War I, was killed in action in 1916, and his 'older son showed...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...
With a heroine as unlikely and unlovely as Medusa, Novelist Taylor (A Wreath of Roses-TIME, March 21, 1949) has magically managed to write a brilliant and extremely funny book. At the end of a long life, the pride and pretense that made Angel unbearable in success make her magnificent in failure. Her outrageous behavior is somehow transmuted into tenderness. Ill and dying, she has a moment of believing that she is a child again, back in her mother's tiny grocery shop near the brewery, with factory sirens about to shred the morning air, and all of life...