Word: superb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes a rich-voiced, menacing Telramund. But the female roles-usually easier to fill-are not nearly so satisfying. Rita Gorr is cruelly miscast as Ortrud, and Lucine Amara's voice is not big enough for the crucial role of Elsa. The Wagner devotee will find here a superb rendering of the master's orchestration, but he will inevitably wonder why, with all their resources, Leinsdorf and RCA Victor let a definitive Lohengrin glide away like the swan down the River Scheldt...
...great individual; others can illuminate a whole period. The latter is the case with a group of eastern Mediterranean sculptures dating, scholars believe, from the late 3rd or early 4th century, and going on view next week at the Cleveland Museum of Art (see color page). Apart from their superb craftsmanship and miraculously undamaged state, what makes these marbles exciting is that they are among the earliest Christian statuary known. Their subjects are two favorite Biblical figures: the Good Shepherd and the prophet Jonah...
Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed from such French masters as Goncourt, Flaubert, Maupassant and Turgenev (whom he insisted on calling French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could...
...TIME'S Essay, "The Impact of the American Way" [July 22], is superb as far as it goes. But it is lamentable, if indeed not shameful, that our social institutions have failed to keep abreast of our technological leadership. It is small comfort that the rest of the world emulates our methods and longs for our goodies...
TIME's piece would have made me even happier had it referred also to the winner of the second prize, Veronica Tyler of Baltimore. Miss Tyler is a superb artist and was a very special favorite of the Russian audiences. Her achievement is a significant...