Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-conscious hero, Lewis writes little of the spectacular deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane...
Cecil Lewis' more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during...
...Wintergreen" gets its 1936 christening today as the band parade complete with blasers, likewise for the first time this year. One of the most spectacular shows of the whole season has been promised with the full time between between halves devoted to them...
...Shawn and his company of male dancers are to appear in Symphony Hall tonight, presenting a variety of solo and ensemble numbers. The group has recently had quite spectacular successes on the West Coast. Another event is the performance of Cesar Frank's choral masterpiece, "The Beatitudes," by the Federal Music Project tonight and tomorrow night at Jordan Hall. This work is rarely given and should be well worth hearing...
Among U. S. expatriate writers a tall, midwestern girl named Kay Boyle has emerged as the most prolific of the lot. In the last three years she has published six volumes. Master of a spectacular if not always lucid prose, she has told the story of the death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works...