Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting beaten by a Leahy-coached team, rival coaches say, is as unpleasant as going through a meatgrinder. His great weakness as a coach lies in his aloofness. He is a superb organizer, a wonderful tactician, has a talent for inspiring great spirit in his players, who respect him but don't love...
Citation, whose stride is around 21 ft, was running with his usual superb rhythm and his air of immense power cautiously controlled. Then in the stretch the phantoms faded and there was only Citation striding forcefully down the center of the track. His time was 1:59 1/5 for the 1 3/16 miles, with nobody pressing...
Last year's production of "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" proved to all who saw them the advantages of this new fluidity in opera. Mozart's "Idomoneo", produced at Tanglewood in 1947 for the first time on this continent, was a superb example of Goldovsky's ability to produce works considered impossible by most companies...
Roche played beautiful ball all the way. His punting was superb, with one long shot to the Dartmouth four-yard line far and away the best of the day. He ran well many times, and his touchdown pass to Ken O'Donnell was a masterpiece of timing and execution...
...very pleasant reading, to be sure. But what Mr. Danzig and most of his confreres apparently did not take into account was the fact that this was a real dyed-in-the-wool upset. It was not, as some would have it, the first exhibition of a superb, polished, brutal machine, squashing an inferior opponent. It was an example of what weeks of bruising work can do for blocking and tackling and a man's physical condition; it was an example of what is usually defined as "being up for a game...