Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simmering near by-just offscreen, on the sound track, between frames. But it never really comes off for the simple reason that it was largely fraudulent, the creation of movie-fan magazines and ambitious young Dean himself. Director George Stevens, who pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they...
...Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, top U.S. policymakers are earnestly debating a new book, a brilliant, independent analysis of the nation's post war diplomatic and military struggle with Communism. Title : Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Harper; $5). Author: Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger, 34, associate director of Harvard's new Center for International Affairs, a policy consultant to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their...
...they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle. Beyond that, scientists were as baffled as laymen by the mysteries of curare...
...their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power, and tragedy was brought into being"), or simply the Greek love of sport, she brought an entire civilization into clear and brilliant focus...
Last season's amateurs were brilliant in the first quarter. Stanford's Quarterback John Brodie, already signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances...