Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elie Siegmeister has arranged a brilliant score from the best and most genuine of our folk and popular music. Mr. Seigmeister had the vast wealth of our nation's tune treasure to draw upon, and the result is a successful, striking partnership with the color and verve of Doris Humphrey's choreography...
Lieut. General James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, brilliant, scrappy commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, stood happily by while Corporal Ruby Newell, of Long Beach, Calif., accepted a bunch of roses and the verdict of U.S. doughboys stationed in England that she is "the most beautiful WAC in the European theater...
...Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
...Robert Graves, brilliant, 49-year-old veteran of 60 volumes of fiction, poetry and biography, has given Poet Milton a drubbing-on the same scanty evidence. His new novel, Wife to Mr. Milton, is an icy, wife's-eye-view of the Puritan Revolution's dourest man and greatest poet, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. It is based on Marie's "secret diary" (which exists only in Author Graves's imagination), plus Graves's solid knowledge of Milton's life & times...
...concerned with the postwar world, this detailed account of what happened in defeated Louisiana-where Federal troops (and bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...