Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared to the brilliant whimsy of the Don and his squire Sancho. Not only do individual comic touches, like the army of sheep and the little bassoon sketch of two Benedictine monks, rank in subtlety above anything in Till, but the entire score, including some of the loveliest and most poignant pages, is pervaded...
Highscorer and most brilliant light of the star-studded aggregation is "Cowboy" Kerr, who stands six feet four, and drops baskets in from all over the court. In 1939 he was All-West guard for the University of Oklahoma. George "Red" Lowman '38, now a proctor in Wiggles-worth Hall; and captain of the Crimson forces in 1938, is also on the team...
...most brilliant chapters of Vorge Against Quinette fall short of their model, those terrible dialogues of search-and-dodging in Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment. But it is no mere tour de force. In it Romains throws much clinical light on those poisonous chemistries which eat at the centres of a petty bourgeois, whether he be a frustrated shopkeeper or a fourth-rate, envious artist...
...write down what he saw he developed a brilliant, surfacy prose, an ability to strike off a scene or a portrait in a dozen visual words whose cadence is a part of the mood; the power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair...
Cordoba Observatory also reports observing the Cunningham comet, which is now of the third magnitude. The two comets are now observable from the Southern Hemisphere. Observers recall no instance in many years when two such brilliant comets were visible at the same time. The Cunningham comet and the Paraskevopoulos comet are separated by thirty degrees...