Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modernized production: "Oscar Hammerstein II did a splendid job in modernizing Bizet's Carmen . . . Even so, is there a single opera fan who would attend more than one or two performances of Carmen Jones...
What Bartlett needs now is to have its splendid, grab-bag riches winnowed and put in order by a touch of scholarship...
...brown obscurity of the painting glowed faintly with candlelight and with rose, blue and yellow waistcoats. The clock on the wall pointed to 2 a.m. and everyone seemed to be having a splendid time splicing the main brace-except for an old salt named Jonas Wanton. Jonas had passed out cold, but he remained a center of attention: one wassailer was being sick beside him, while Stephen Hopkins (who was later to sign the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island) blessed his bald head with grog...
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist; Victor, 7 sides). Ravel, Stokowski & Co. turned Mussorgsky's fine, delicate "pictures" into big, gaudy orchestral frescoes; Pianist Horowitz has returned them, in splendid condition, to the instrument Mussorgsky wrote them for. Recording: fair...
Whilst appreciating your very human account of the splendid service the U.S. Air Force is giving Berliners through the air lift [TIME, Oct. 18] . . . I was disappointed at your failure to make any comment upon the equally determined efforts of the Royal Air Force...