Word: matchlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering why he isn't hitting anybody. But as a comedian Jimmy is not in the least confused: he is the master of a style much subtler than it seems. Superficially, he is merely a matchless Mr. Malaprop -who but Jimmy could describe an elephant as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" and really seem to mean it? But look deeper. His comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown...
Boswell's matchless life of Dr. Johnson made rather small potatoes of their engaging tour together through the Hebrides. But the tour was unforgettable in many ways-and this eighth volume of Yale University's edition of Boswell's papers lets the reader count the ways. It pictures Johnson-the most ungainly of oldsters, the most nearsighted of onlookers, the most sedentary of talkers, the most fanatical of Londoners-perched atop tiny horses, half-drowned in pitching vessels, sleeping in chilly barns and clambering over rocks in remote Scottish islands. And by the side of this most...
Died. Eugene Holman, 67, a ruddy-faced geologist whose candid charm and matchless knack for developing new oilfields took him to the top of the world's biggest oil company, Standard...
...Your matchless art has created its own rival-those -who would outsing you with your praise...
...Lear. The Reivers is not The Sound and the Fury. Critics hot for pessimistic reality may find this autumnal story a retreat into anecdotal escapism. More important, readers who know the body of Faulkner's work will miss, as they have in much of his recent writing, the matchless (even when flawed by excess), surging power of his earlier and darker creations. Occasionally the book falls into something close to pure sentimentality. But what the heart holds, Faulkner once wrote, becomes the truth. Faulkner's heart has held Yoknapatawpha County, its gentleness and comedy as well...