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SCHUBERT TRIO NO. 1 IN B FLAT (Columbia). Never have violin, piano and cello sounded more radiant than when played by the illustrious trio of otherwise solo virtuosos Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin and Leonard Rose. Schubert's music kindles this continuous glow, for it is filled with sunlight, in contrast to the black Winter Journey of the same period, shortly before the composer's death...
Parker's Back, a grotesque but mystically radiant story of salvation, describes what happens to a loose-living redneck who can't seem to get right with his God-fearing wife. The dang-fool frets till he can't drive straight, crashes his tractor into a tree, rises up inspired and rushes off to the tattoo parlor, where a life-size head of Christ is inscribed in the middle of his back...
...artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...
...predicted, M.F.L. proved the multilateral force of the evening, collected nine Oscars, including best picture and best direction. But what really made the race interesting was Producer Jack Warner's changed love, or how he decided to stop worrying and take no chances on a bomb. There was radiant Julie Andrews, most foully (so they said) done out of the part she had created on Broadway, now present as a best-actress nominee for her Mary Poppins role. And there was Audrey Hepburn, the girl who got the movie part but no Oscar nomination. Audrey was there by Academy...
...When he appeared on stage, I saw a fellow of fairly small frame, strikingly handsome, with dark brown eyes, a winning smile and shining white teeth. But the moment he started to sing, I was hardly conscious of anything else except The Voice. From that modest physique issued a radiant stream of ravishing beauty and expressivity, which, when the occasion demanded, expanded to so enormous a size as to seem almost a physiological impossibility...