Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appropriately described by gargantuan adjectives" in a New York Herald Tribune editorial yesterday, Professor Barbour "was physically huge and his frame was matched by tremendous energy and zest for life, a great heart, a mind of extraordinary depth and penetration, and a brilliant and undeniably pungent tongue...
...There has never been, a Hadrian VII-except in "Baron Corvo's" brilliant, perverse novel about an English Pope who chose that title...
...Bomb-ravaged Berlin is having a brilliant opera season this year. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
...which President Truman gave him a third Distinguished Service Medal, citing him for "extraordinary foresight, sound judgment, brilliant strategic genius...
Despite occasional blemishes in the performance and somewhat unfavorable comparison with the Society's brilliant performances in past years, the 1945 production provided a thoroughly enjoyable evening which demands only further exploration into other pre-classic masterpieces...