Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson responded to New York crowds and commercialism with a disappointing display of first-night jitters. The superb passing and marksmanship that had enabled them to whip Yale and Quonset was transformed by the tight Buckeye defense into a sorry exhibition of wild ball-heaving. And the extra-ordinarily close arbiting of a hypercritical referee throttled the usual effective Crimson defense...
...Superb marksmanship and a devastating fast break sewed up the game for the Crimson after the first few moments of uncertainty; they averaged a very hot 42 percent in making 30 of the 71 shots they took from the floor, in contrast to the Wildcats...
...writing. . . . The reportorial and editorial aspects of radio [on V-E day] were superb. But when an acknowledged master of the art ... got to work on the same stuff, he was dull, windy, opaque, pretentious, and in the end, false...
...pages of this intelligently edited, handsomely bound book include a Brady biography (unfamiliar to most Americans) and over 400 superb Brady photographs, together with a number made by his assistants (at the height of his activities, he had 21). There are also some 200 Brady portrait photographs, some of them (notably Phineas T. Barnum, side-showman extraordinary-see cut-and Walt Whitman) never published before. Outstanding is the series of photographs of Lincoln taken by Brady in his studio...
...artistically superb interpretation of an extremely complex and difficult tragedy. "He Who Gets Slapped," the Theatre Guild has contributed what is probably the most consistently excellent revival of a season that has already witnessed Moliere, Shaw, and Shakespeare...