Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems diffident. His only sign of taut nerves is the tearing up of paper into innumerable little bits. He plays superb poker and bridge, evaluating his cards, his opponents' faces, the stakes, in lightning decision, without seeming to watch...
...Winship, leader of the Crimson snow troops last year, profited by a short session of skiing in Alaska last summer and is in tip-top condition now. Also a superb stylist, "Glacial Tom" can enter four events, but will probably stick to the downhill and slalom, although he may venture into the jump if needed. John Abbot was the fastest downhill man at Stowe, and has probably earned himself a place on the Varsity if he does as well in the slalom...
...chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill...
...give his performances a clear stamp. The recording of the Sibelius Second suffers from this indeterminateness. It is rushed and nervous in places, stodgy in others, and prevailingly slovenly. One may quarrel with details of tempi when Koussevitzky plays the work, but without exception he gives a performance of superb vigor and effect. However, the release is technically good, except for a lack of body to the orchestra, and in general is an adequate...
Only the Elizabethan songs (of which a few are included) approach that, and only one named poet surpasses it. That is William Blake, in his superb Cradle Song, which in this volume is misquoted, and which is neither to, for, from, with, by or about a mother. It is about a baby, and it is written from the point of view of a poet, or possibly a father...