Word: excels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Stephen Hayes plays Jesus with straight-faced gentleness (aside from a few Groucho Marx imitations), other members of the ensemble excel at comic vignettes. Mary Soloschin is very funny as a frenetic old miser who heaps up his wealth in storehouses, Michael der Manuelian captures in excruciating grimaces the plight of a parched seed, and Don Marocchio's impersonation of our former president is painfully accurate. Manulis' directorial coup, however, is his dramatization of the parable of the prodigal son, which features strippers enticing the prodigal to the strains of "Hey, Big Spender" and the amazing vocal contortions...
Today will bring the greatest challenge this season to Murphy and her teammates as a strong Yale squad arrives at the IAB for a 5 p.m. showdown. The Eli women excel at long events in contrast to the Radcliffe swimmers, who stand out mostly in the sprints. Since the format of this meet has been altered to cater to long distance events, the home team may have serious problems...
...time that teachers and parents help girls learn that it is not "unfeminine" to excel in mathematics and that the only husband worth having is one mature enough to live with his equal...
Griffin analyzes academic pressure the same way everyone else does, in terms of the economic situation and the competition for admission to professional schools. He also perceives a kind of self-generated, self-perpetuating pressure to succeed, to excel. The situation he sees is one that exists everywhere these days, and he cannot explain, really, why things are so much more intense at Yale, except to say that Yale students tend to be vigorous and enthusiastic and that "it's a terrific time here...
...most of his professional life Orwell sought to bring about that improvement. His weapons were not formidable. As Lionel Trilling observes, Orwell's pieces excel "by reason of the very plainness of his mind, his simple ability to look at things in a downright undeceived way ... he is not a genius-what a relief! What an encouragement. For he communicates to us the sense that what he has done, any one of us could...