Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This terrain is decorated with superb internal communications, which favor the defender. Moscow is the focus of ten radiating railroads, and even though the Germans have cut six of those roads, the stumps are still available for throwing troops into this or that sector of the front. There are, besides, eleven trunk highways and numberless small roads running north, west and south from the city. Moscow teems with busses, trucks and cars available for urgent transport...
Lorca's delightful story, beautifully told, of an old shoemaker and his young wife is enough of itself to make the production a success, but directors Ted Squier '43 and Robert Neiley '43 have built it into a triumph of the theatre. Superb acting on the part of Priscilla Freeman, in the title role, Robert Keahey '45, as her husband, and Emmanuel Weisgal '45, who achieves a perfect combination of pathos and naivete in the role of the young boy; a setting by Holarbird at his best; and strikingly colorful costumes by Edward Weren '42, all combine towards the total...
Russia's industrial plant, which is much more efficient than popularly supposed in this country, and the superb morale of the people account for the magnificent Russian resistance up to date, Lamont said...
...confusing, but "Maltese Falcon" is one of the most exciting pictures that's come out of Hollywood in years. Add Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, add a superb job on photography, whether it's heightening the tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...
...history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb engines...