Word: best
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...forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...
Manager Edward Johnson could claim with justice that his last opening night before Edinburgh's Rudolf Bing takes over next season (TIME, June 13) was "one of the best." But by the time the first week was over it was evident that the old Met had not noticeably changed its ways: it still had probably the world's best singing, some of the world's most outdated staging and acting...
...pictures of ballet dancers practicing and handsome boys having fun on beaches. There was also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin was storytelling art, as carefully staged and realistically painted as a Satevepost cover. What saved it from banality was the unpleasantness of the subject and the academic brilliance of Cadmus' draftsmanship...
...shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...
...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...