Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes, gave up Vyazma, Rzhev, Kharkov, Belgorod, Rostov, a foothold in Voronezh. Manstein, retreating along the southern fringe of Russia, shrewdly caught advanced Russian tank columns in the March mud and out of fuel, recaptured Belgorod and Kharkov, subsequently wrote a sometimes brilliant, sometimes mistaken, always futile chapter in the tactics of retreat...
...appointment to the Institute in 1939. He left France with his wife on the day of French mobilization. His library-a fine one-had preceded him. Behind him was a European career marked by outstanding monographs on Breugel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, the brothers van Eyck, and brilliant lectures at the Sorbonne...
Today, the flute has a few master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming...
With "Mexican Hayride," Mike Todd seems to have perfected his formula for war-time entertainment. He is the original money no objeck kid. Breath-taking sets, exquisite costumes, and gorgeous girls all bathed in Hazzard Short's brilliant lighting effects are what Mr. Todd uses for the basis of his show, and a very good basis it is at that. Into this colorful pot pourri he has tossed leering Bobby Clark as a racketeer turned South American good-will ambassador. Also on this "Mexican Hayride" are Wilbur Evans to sing, June Havoc to sing and dance, and Luba Malina both...
Most striking example of the shortcomings of U.S. fiction in 1943 was Jesse Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie ($2.75), in which a story of a Kentucky mountain child's uncanny poetic observation was curdled by a burlesque-show farce of life among his elders. The brilliant portraits of anti-Soviet Author Mark Aldanov's Russian novel, The Fifth Seal ($3), were blurred in the diffuse and incoherent story...