Word: triumphant
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...studies of what it takes to be a first-rate ruler is Shakespeare's set of four plays comprising Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV, and Henry V. The dramatist here presents and analyses the many reasons for the failure of the first two monarchs and the triumphant success of the third...
...MAJOR (Columbia). The elegant flowers of Mozart's genius are tended with loving care by Rudolf Serkin. He does particularly well at portraying the shifting moods of the G Major Concerto, which begins like one of the composer's opera overtures with a triumphant flood of sound, then grows increasingly introspective. Serkin's careful hands hold the balance, and the listener hears one of Mozart's most poignant statements...
...Carlyle Hotel, while dress designers laden with garment bags swished in past lines of cold-eyed Secret Service men. No word of what Luci chose in the way of a gown was permitted to leak out to the expectant reporters in the lobby, and Lady Bird was triumphant at having kept them in the dark. "We did it," she exulted when it was all over. "Imagine, three days in New York and nobody knows our secrets...
...last week, he plays again. His Scriabin is more difficult and more triumphant, his Chopin alternately stormy and suave; it is more introspective than Rubinstein's, probes for a cerebral content that surprises and electrifies. His eyes are glued to the keyboard, his fingers carefully searching out each note as if they are switches that illuminate sound. But the greatest success is not in the relationship of Horowitz to his audience or Horowitz to his critics, but of Horowitz to Horowitz. He signs a five-year contract with Columbia Records. On May 8 he will play again before...
Iolanthe is Gilbert at his most wonderfully preposterous, Sullivan at his best, and Harvard G&S only slightly unworthy of them both. But theirs is a clever and, in the end, triumphant unworthiness. They have transformed an admittedly far-out world into a farcical one, and they have done it awfully well...