Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character who is a kind of poor relation to the rich, left-wing intellectual of the brilliant Huxley 'aos. He has started not only a new literary trend in Britain, but he marks the end of an intellectual era. See BOOKS, Lucky Jim & His Pals...
...Manhattan's East 56th Street, is the sort of room that offers music only as an incidental attraction. Mirror-lined, plushly padded, it opened a year ago as a refuge for after-theater drinkers, celebrities and celebrity seekers ("The beautiful Red Carpet," says its ad. "enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like Being...
...Lucky Jim and his pals mark the end of an intellectual era-the era of Utopian belief in man's earthly salvation through socialism and sociology, related to the igth century evolutionary notion that history is a process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History...
...unevenness of Gerassi's paintings not only from one to the next, but at times within a picture. A telltale sign is the smudges which occur in various places where the artist has tried to correct himself. For this reason, as well as others, the "Fighting Cocks," a brilliant picture, strikes me as more satisfying than the long bird that hangs to its left...
...immense canvases seem slight. They do reflect facility, sensitivity and a highly personal approach, but somehow their content never quite justifies their expansive delivery. On the other hand, each modest Bonnard still-life, like Vuillard's little Woman in Green, voices far more substance in truly elegant chords of brilliant color...