Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Boris Christoff; Angel) features the best of the half a dozen great Borises in a superb recording. Christoff sings three roles in his amazingly rich basso, and the Sofia National Opera chorus is matchless in the music. Three LPs, sung in Russian...
...this week's Sport section, Pitcher Warren Spahn, a man of superb control, tries to describe how he throws to the outer edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
More than any other astronaut, Cooper displayed his bitterness at being passed over on earlier space flights. Yet when NASA doctors grounded Astronaut Donald Slayton because of a heart flutter, Cooper threatened to quit the program. After the fifth U.S. man-in-space flight, a superb six-orbit job by Wally Schirra, there were reports that last week's flight would be flown by Alan Shepard. Schirra, a close friend of Cooper's, put an end to that: he threatened to raise a public ruckus if Cooper were bypassed...
Carl Yastrzemski, freed from the flood of publicity that followed his every step when he first came into the league, is finally looking like the new Ted williams after all. His hitting is steady, his fielding superb. He has thrown out 16 runners from his outfield post and is batting...
...real problem, aside from the indiscreet wasp, is how to deal with an illogical and somewhat typical woman. Kendra Stearns does a superb job of defending her nudity and bewildering her husband, an ambitious French Deputy (David Mills...