Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great nations of the world must prove their right to priority." It has indeed turned out to be Italy's proving table. Isolated from the rest of World War II, British successes on land (see p. 36) and sea (see p. 30) in the Mediterranean area had been brilliant. But the British had not relinquished their conviction that this time the great nations would have to hand in their final proofs not in Africa but on or near a little patch of islands hard by the shoulder of disproven France (see below). They still expected an all-out attack...
Beside this battle, that of Salamis (480 B.C.) seems now a great exercise in fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...
There had been nothing like it in that part of the world for 31 centuries-since the Pharaoh Merneptah, in 1221 B.C., sent his archers out to stop an invasion by the Libyans. Like General Sir Archibald Wavell, Merneptah surprised himself with a brilliant success: drove the Libyans to the Mount of the Horns of the Earth, well inside Libya, killed almost half of the invading force, captured most of the others, and took over 120,000 pieces of equipment, including 9,000 copper swords and the King of Libya's sandals, which the King had removed...
Russell Bowie, ex-prex of the Lampoon and son of a CRIMSON president, disgraced his father by ending the evening with a distinctly mediocre score. Bowie made a brilliant start but became rattled after he had identified "Diamond Jim," "Big Jim," "Gentleman Jim," and "Lord Jim" as a certain well-known local character...
...Palestrina and Durante (17633) moderately well sung by the Augustana Choir under Henry Veld....And for Wagner fans, there is a new pressing of the overture to Die Meistersinger played by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. This sort of stuff is right up Stokowski's alley. He gives a brilliant, bang-up performance of the prelude to the third act of Lohengrin, on the fourth side...