Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physically, the Budenny specimen is still, at 58, superb. He rides like a trooper, fences without guards, can snuff out a candle with a revolver bullet at 40 paces. He has a voice like the roar of a breaking ice-jam. Manly to excess, he is a born leader in the medieval sense of the term...
...personality. He had the satisfaction of knowing that in almost every importance college and university in America "Kittredge men" were, as they still are, at least trying to carry on his work and his methods. His impressive appearance, his fine histrionic powers, his extraordinary learning and intellectual curiosity, his superb teaching ability, these and other things made him for decades an outstanding figure in English and American scholarship. To those of us who were both his students and his colleagues in the English Department his death marks the end of an epoch...
...society in its place. It is just as funny and good as Hollywood has always claimed. "Mayerling" is a Parisian importation with Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux as stars. As can well be imagined, theirs is a great love story, but the best feature of the movie is its superb musical score...
...best-selling Country Lawyer, is a total recall of family jokes, family stories and the intramural mores of Father, Mother, Grandma and eight little Partridges from the time the youngest was born until the last has left the upstate New York nest. As bucolic Americana it is superb. As a picture of boys' life, it is what Booth Tarkington's Penrod is supposed to be and for many people...
With the world's greatest artist of the silver skates, the top swing king of the nation, and a beautiful scenic background, a show can't help but be good. Add to that a more than passable plot, a strong supporting cast, superb photography--and even the calloused Crimson Moviegoer starts writing like a ten cylinder Hollywood press agent out of "What Makes Sammy...