SO FAR, Fatos Nano, Albania's new prime minister, has proved a splendid ambassador.
In Waziristan (1939-41), he was twice mentioned in dispatches; he also served in Burma, and, in 1944, proved a splendid battalion commander of the 4/8 Gurkhas.
But LA FORMENTERA: The Woodland Refuge of Juan Montoya (Monacelli, $65) proves the splendid exception to my rule.
"Prohibition has proved itself a splendid failure," he said.
Katherine of Bora proved to be a splendid helpmate for Luther.
In 1969, Nadler proved the following; the splendid fixed point theorem for set-valued contractions, which is one of generalizations of the Banach contraction principle [1, 2].
Lawrence Van Gelder, reviewing the production for The New York Times, wrote: "Mr. Cohen proves himself a splendid anecdotalist with a highly developed sense of comic timing.
On first sight he was splendid; sure he proved his beauty in the test.
In Schubert's "Winterreise" a year ago at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Goerne proved intrusively finicky, manipulating every splendid syllable, tone and color.
Faced with threats from African nature the Germans proved, as usual, to be splendid improvisers, in medical science as in military arts, with far more doctors on hand than the British - at least until mid-1917.
