Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...
TIME'S [April 14] presentation of the Flagstad case is a superb example of unbiased journalism. I might be wrong, but it was my impression that World War II ended two years ago. And didn't we defeat Naziism at that time? Or are we so insecure in our victory that we feel compelled to grab at the flimsy evidence wrapped around one of the . . . greatest Wagnerian sopranos of all time, and persecute...
...other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves to be successful in its ambitious circulation plans. A little more color in the die-straight writing...
...elementary half-courses in the department are required of all concentrators: Comparative Philology 10 is an Introduction to the History of Language and Whatmough does a brilliant job here, well equipped with superb scholastic facilities, antedotes and amusing idiosyncrasies that keep the concentrators and numerous non-concentrators in the audience on their toes at all times...
...that this first Boston performance of "Is Life Worth Living?" isn't worth seeing. In his story of the happenings in a simple Irish town under the influence of the melodramatic performances of a hammy repertory company, Lennox Robinson has written a number of superb scenes, ranging from burlesque to pathos, and they come frequently enough to make the production decidedly on the plus side as entertainment. And-at one point, the second act climax, the burlesque and pathos are combined in a scene that stands out even in this highly touted season...