Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monty Wooley, former Yale professor-turned-actor, proves again that it's only a Yale man who will accept an invitation for dinner and stay for six weeks. He is superb as Sheridan Whiteside, the bearded book of Bartlett's Nasty Quotations, who is this country's greatest argument for mercy killing. Bette Davis, pleasingly different without a neurosis or two to keep her company, plays the role of his long-suffering and fast-talking secretary with sparkle and deftness. And Reginald Gardner is more like Noel Coward than Noel Coward himself...
...General MacArthur, transmitting their "message of superb fidelity to the President of the U.S.," the pledge of loyalty from onetime enemies of the U.S. was heartening news. So were two other developments...
...hope of the Boston bar. But at Yale MacLeish had begun to write poetry. He left the law, went to Paris, saw the town and the world much as other American expatriates. Returning, he became a writer-editor of FORTUNE in 1930. As a general journalist he was superb. When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor, and Americans turned to their reference works to find out about Japan, the best one-volume collection of essays penetrating deep into all phases of Nippon was the brilliant Japan number of FORTUNE, chiefly written and edited by MacLeish (September...
...doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions and giving out Bibles to carrying dead and wounded under fire. Baptist Chaplain Lieut. Robert P. Taylor of Texas gave the most recent superb example of the chaplains' courage when, during an attack and under machine-gun and rifle fire, he helped carry the wounded to the Bataan jungles...
Irwin Shaw's material is fresh, and he handles it with rich understanding and superb technique-up to a point. Then he lays it on too thick or too pat. Perhaps his professionalism is to blame. Perhaps the author of Bury The Dead is more naturally a playwright than a storyteller. Tricks of overemphasis, which get by on stage, look as uneasy in print as theatrical make-up does in a living room...