Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the five best contemporary writers and how did I rate them," drawled Faulkner. "And I said, Wolfe, Hemingway, Dos Passes, Caldwell and myself. I rated Wolfe first, myself second. I put Hemingway last. I said we were all failures ... I rated the authors on the basis of their splendid failure to do the impossible. I believed [that] Wolfe tried to do the greatest of the impossible, that he tried to reduce all human experience to literature. And I thought after Wolfe I had tried the most. I rated Hemingway last because he stayed within what he knew...
...champion's real competition came from one of his countrymen. Whistling downhill at a splendid clip, Franz Kapus, 45, a Zurich flour-mill mechanic, was clocked in five minutes. 10.52 seconds. Fritz Feierabend had lost his title to a Feierabend sled by a fleeting three hundredths of a second...
Open Up Your Heart (Cowboy Church Sunday School; Decca). "Smilers never lose and frowners never win," is the moral of this spellbinder, and a splendid group of really mean-sounding little boys gives it the ride it so richly deserves...
...peaceful lines in the face of the old Gothic King," unaware that they were actually looking at Malskat's portrait of Rasputin. "I learned a lot of things about my art," Malskat told the court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks of Gothic genius." When the forgery was revealed, the student indignantly pointed out that they were still remarkably like the Gothic murals in the Lübeck Holy Ghost Hospital. Explained Malskat: "I also painted those...
...front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into bed with Bella Darvi. Kirk's problem in this picture seems to be: Which has the more exciting clutch? He seems to prefer the Ferrari, even though Actress Darvi offers a splendid sample of what one character frankly describes as "independent front suspension...