Word: peerlessly
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...that all facilities are created separate but equal. What's more, Director Billy Wilder makes his attitude stick like Schlagobers slung in the spectator's kisser. He purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver, he has produced a sometimes beWildered, often wonderfully funny exercise in nonstop nuttiness...
...Greeks knew this: Orpheus, the peerless and beautiful singer, won the charming Eurydice. But Aristaeus, ancient kin of Pan, whose very name meant the good, pursued her one day, and she was killed in the flight. Overcome by grief, Orpheus sought her and persuaded Hades to release her from the underworld. Orpheus started back to earth with her, but violated the condition that he should not look at her until he left the underworld--and so he lost her. Back on earth, Orpheus was torn apart by women jealous of his love for Eurydice...
...second quarter, Harvard took the stage to the relief of most right-thinking music fans in the audience. Elliot Forbes drew at least two peerless moments out of his well-coached squad. Diffusa Est Gratia by Nanino approached a plane of spiritual majesty, especially during those exquisite final measures which required impressive breath control. In addition, Milhaud's setting of the twenty-first psalm was presented splendidly, in spite of its truly difficult chord patterns...
...votes of the folks in the mountains and valleys back home. Last week, a full year before he comes up for reelection, just plain Bill Fulbright was wooing those votes for all he was worth-and presenting himself not only as a global thinker but as a peerless pork-barreler...
Died. Captain May Williams, 70, a 48-year veteran of the Salvation Army, whose dismay when her son Ted took to playing Sunday baseball for a brewery gave way to pride after he became the peerless slugger of the Boston Red Sox ("The reason he is so good is that God cooperates"); of a stroke; in a Santa Barbara, Calif., nursing home...