Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...
...first workout was Poland. Here it was observed that the German 18-day clean sweep was not attributable to new instruments, but to superb coordination and handling of improved old ones. All this winter the Germans were reported to have gone through the most exhaustive rehearsals in central Poland, as well as on the old Czech Maginot Line, to prepare for the Western push. Last week in France it was still that old instrument, the infantry, that was doing most of the work...
...chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...
...what became the Polish Corridor). His crossing of the Brahe in the Corridor caused the destruction of three Polish divisions and a cavalry brigade east of that river, but the Allies estimated him chiefly from his textbook Look Out, Tanks! (1939), which summarized his basic tactical principle with superb triteness: "It is important to penetrate swiftly and deeply into enemy positions with a great number of tanks...
...same, and all good. Sometimes the plots are too ambitious, involving the elaborate business deals of J.C. Dithers, Dagwood's boss, with Blondie always saving the day. That is the main trouble with this installment. But in the treatment of detail and atmosphere, it is like all the rest, superb. Art critics seeking modern American genre are missing a promising field if they do not consider this unpretentious product of Hollywood...