Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bucking the hard realism of France at the turn of the century, Rostand came on the theatrical scene as an entertainer. His flamboyant wit, despite its aborted, cloying idealism, makes for brilliant entertainment in, the deft hands of Jose Ferrer in this week's opening of Cyrano de Bergerac...
...throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail of smoke behind...
...real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
...house the Institute, the World Council had signed a five-year lease on the luxurious, 18th Century Château de Bossey at Céligny. ten miles from Geneva. In this elegant, vine-hung pleasure dome that once belonged to the brilliant Mme. de Stael,* 70-odd young men & women, selected as potential leaders, would study, think and talk Christianity...
...pieces, the bedeviled as well as the Devils. The hero's relations with both of the women in his life, Imogene and Anna, remain on a detached level that is cold and heartless. Nowhere does he reveal any pity or sympathy, even for his closest friends. For all its brilliant condemnation of the bewildered inhabitants of twentieth century America, the book damns no one more thoroughly than it does Edmund Wilson. K.S.L...