Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes for an undefeated season right around Hallowe'en time last year. This fall, however, most of them are playing second string and Harlow's eleven has been beaten twice to date. The local bookies quote Rutgers a one point favorite, but the Crimson will have to stage a brilliant upset to equal or better this mark...
...M.I.T. has a team of brilliant players," Coach MacDonald said yesterday, "but they generally play like eleven individuals and spend most of their time trying to score one-man goals. This usually leads to defeats." MacDonald figures he has a good team this year, and also stands by the traditional soccer theory that a good team will beat eleven individual stars...
...Elegant Billingsgate." Many a student of U.S. letters knows Henry Sr. only as the father of two brilliant sons. To George Bernard Shaw he seemed the most interesting member of his family. He accepted his father's fortune but renounced the capitalism that made it possible, and became a parlor-&-platform socialist...
Kilenyi's interpretation shows, in every measure, a consistent lack of either feeling for Romantic music or comprehension of Chopin's ideas. The energetic and heroic studies are methodically hammered at, and the brilliant or ethereal ones are transformed into specimens of picayune flippancy. To top it all off, he has used an edition which, in several cases, contains notes that are simply wrong...
...lyrics are mediocre and great gobs of the humor fall flat. But the show has a redeeming bounce; it has a good comic (when he has good comedy) in Actor Silvers; it has a girl with looks and personality in Nanette Fabray. Most of all, it has a brilliant choreographer in Jerome Robbins (On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). Robbins' best offering: a hilarious Mack Sennett ballet which grows into a masterpiece of controlled pandemonium...