Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilienthal had many enemies. They were opposed to him not so much for what he was-a brilliant, impatient, zealous administrator-as for what he represented. He represented the New Deal, which was their shorthand way of saying: hostility to the successful businessman, government ownership of utilities, too much government in general...
...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only...
Leonard Bernstein, brilliant, brash young (28) man of U.S. music, triumphed in a ticklish test. In Manhattan he led Dr. Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra through a short but arduous young man's program: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
...found among the professionals and so-called "intellectuals." This influence is reflected in the newspaper columns, the radio commentaries, the periodicals and publishing houses and other agencies of communication and education. When it goes into action, it can mold public opinion on many vital issues. Some brilliant feats have been pulled off-for example, the campaign for a second front, and the campaigns against Mihailovich and Chiang Kaishek...
...Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...