Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME; March...
Rage or Resignation. No critic had to excuse Toscanini's present by recalling his brilliant past. In this season's memorable 13 broadcasts, the Maestro has put on -and carried off-demanding programs that would have taxed conductors 30 years younger. He has not taken things easier because of his age, and he did not allow anyone else to either. In a business where wrath is an occupational privilege, Toscanini is still the tyrant of them all. Last week, rehearsing Brahms, the Maestro joyfully sang melodic passages with the orchestra in his croaky voice (which is often audible...
...veterans supplied that. Colonel Clarence M. Young, 57, CAB's technical expert and onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent, was Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores). But Josh Lee, 55, onetime Bible-spouting Senator from Oklahoma, has not shone as an aviation expert...
...still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
Like most of these brilliant irreverents and fantasists, W. S. Gilbert was a diehard conservative by conviction, a palace-revolutionary by temperament. When Gilbert heard that suffragettes had chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street, crying "Votes for Women!" he barked: "I shall chain myself to the railings outside Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and yell 'Beds for Men!' " Gilbert's tributes to Queen and Country were usually proffered on the end of a spear. He satirized royalty, the peerage, the law, the clergy, bureaucrats, the Army & Navy...