Mays was then 42, and in the 22nd and last season of his brilliant, Hall-of-Fame career.
While the D'Aulaires wrote that "Persephone grew up on Olympus and her gay laughter rang through the brilliant halls," Percy's introduction to the story of Demeter's daughter reads, "I have to be honest.
Beautiful it was, with the sky on fair days like blue and brilliant halls of air, and the bright-green folds and hollows of country beneath, and the mountains lying sharp and bare twenty miles off, beyond the rivers.
Once scary urchins calling for anarchy, the original punks have become a brilliant music-hall act: ironic, libertarian and fabulously English.
Look, for example, at Alvar Aalto's modestly brilliant Saynatsalo town hall (1951), capturing the atmosphere and the elements of Finnish lakes and forests in its design and setting.
In its halls, brilliant legal minds like Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall forged the strategy that made Brown v. Board of Education a reality.
"I thought she was brilliant in New York," the Hall of Famer Virginia Wade said.
But "Mary" had its brilliant high spots, while "Hall Pass" is dispiriting.
Meanwhile, in his recital at CARNEGIE HALL the brilliant French pianist PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD will present the secular Bach, performing Contrapunctus I-XI from "The Art of Fugue," the composer's final work, left incomplete at his death.
I'm in Budapest this week, where conductor Ivan Fischer has just opened the Budapest Festival Orchestra's annual Mahler festival at the National Palace of Arts, Budapest's newest concert hall with brilliant acoustics by Russell Johnson.
The best parts of Their Lips Talk of Mischief, especially Lou's midwinter wedding to Aoife in Ealing town hall, a brilliant set-piece, have the intensity of a fine short story.
