Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oscar Wilde, who tried to set quite a few fashions himself, might have been amused to know that last week Moscow took the same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda...
Some critics recalled that Bach himself had been content with a choir of 17 voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...
...Fish and Wildlife Service patted itself on the back. It had saved from extinction North America's biggest wild bird, the trumpeter swan. Once the trumpeters ranged over much of the U.S., flying in grand formations like long-necked B-295. But their brilliant white plumage and 8-ft. wingspread made them barndoor targets. Their flesh was tasty, their feathers salable...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman's book is probably the ablest apology for Russia ever written by an American. It is like a brilliant brief by a very clever lawyer who is fortified rather than handicapped by knowing that his client did commit the murder, and even where the body is buried...
Radicals, Awake! In 1939 Saul D. Alinsky turned his back on a brilliant criminological career in favor of a life in the Jungle-the slums that lie back of Chicago's stockyards. It was his simple faith that if leaders of the fragmented sections of any U.S. community could be got to sit down together and talk or participate in common action, democracy would be reborn...