Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student, Elizabeth was always systematic rather than brilliant. She learned to play Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven capably and accurately on the piano, though she preferred Bing Crosby recordings. Her drawings, like the horse she executed on linoleum for Granny Queen's Christmas, were painstaking and thorough. Very different were Sister Margaret's drawings of an imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret...
...more reviews, more fireworks, and another grand ball. There will be state presents for everyone: a gold box full of diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from ?6,000 to ?15,000 a year, and the chance to manage her money...
Burning-eyed Conductor Otto Klemperer, 61, who left Germany when Hitler was taking over, reappeared in Los Angeles. Seven years ago he had been operated on for a brain tumor. He had not had a steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed...
...this gallery emerge two of Dostoevsky's most brilliant creations. One is aged Prince Sokolsky, a kindly, nutty, wealthy widower who loves to toy with the idea of marrying again-and is dumfounded to learn that his rapacious heirs are plotting to have him shut up in an asylum. The other is Versilov, Arkady's father, a shrewd but patient man who well comprehends the feelings of insult and injury that seethe inside his illegitimate...
Thus, in the most exciting if hardly the most brilliant performance of the year, Coach Bill Barclay's team closed its season with a 16-9 record, and tied Dartmouth for fourth place in the Ivy League with five wins and seven losses. It was a fitting climax for a well-coached team with not enough topflight personnel to be called exceptional...