Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early Sunday morning when the sun began to shine...
Forever Sound. Throughout its survey, "British Masterpieces" blends together paintings with intellectual pretensions and popular successes. One of the surprises is that many of the once admired esthetes look downright banal today, while several of the philistines positively shine. William Powell Frith (1819-1909) had nothing but contempt for "the crazes in art," preferred to depict "the infinite variety of everyday life." His Derby Day (center color pages) drew such huge crowds to the Royal Academy in 1858 that it had to be protected by a guard rail...
Hope laces his wit with good taste. He may sometimes play the ogling goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed...
McCarthy began to shine in private meetings. On Monday he lunched with 60 prominent members of this state's peace movement at the Harvard Club of Boston. He began the meeting with a brief moral condemnation of the war. (Throughout the weekend, McCarthy impressed private audiences with the extreme toughness of his anti-war stand...
...rank of U.S. orchestras (behind the "big five" of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Chicago), he has given it an even finer edge of technical precision. While enriching its sound, particularly in the strings, he has achieved a limpid texture that lets the inner architecture of the music shine through. His interpretations, though vigorous and often intense, do not often reflect great emotional involvement-a trait that frustrates some members of the audience and orchestra. "Sometimes," sighs one of his musicians, "we wish he'd let himself go more...