Word: raving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CENTER: Lee Roy Jordan, 21, Alabama; 6 ft. 2 in., 207 lbs. One rave notice: "Has good lateral movement, covers a lot of ground on running plays, cuts deep on passes. He's a hitter. This boy loves contact." Best on defense, Jordan would play linebacker as a pro. On offense, the scouts like Michigan State's Dave Behrman, 21 (6 ft. 4 in., 263 lbs.). The report on Behrman: "A real horse...
...rich 180 minutes long. After a run in New York art theaters, it mysteriously shrank to 147, then pushed off for the rest of the nation as a beggar-thin 95 minutes. Such chopping may be why so many U.S. film goers wonder what New York critics found to rave about...
With a breakfast-time disquisition on "Stresses Within the Communist Bloc," Washington's WTTG TV last week began to broadcast a series of uncompromisingly erudite lectures on international affairs by professors of New York's Columbia University.* Behind this brainstretching venture, which drew a rare rave from FCC Chairman Newton Minow, stood an unlikely figure: Investment Banker Armand Grover Erpf, 64. In 26 years as a partner in Manhattan's prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label...
Shostakovich was clearly determined to woo a large audience, and there was never much doubt that he would succeed. With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave. Said Izuestia: "Just as today we feel an involuntary envy for the contemporaries of Beethoven, Paganini and Tchaikovsky, so will future generations envy us who first heard the Twelfth Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century...
...Contrary to that of my own country," he sulked, "the West German press was bowled over by the reporting I've done on the Berlin situation." Sample rave, from Berlin's B.Z.: "Go back to the U.S., Mr. Jack Paar. We don't want to see you here any more...