Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, said Yesterday that the seminar's status would not be definite until he had consulted other Masters on the policy of allowing House seminars to be given by persons outside the House staff. He said, however, that the idea of the program was "probably superb," although he added there might be problems of finding room enough to accommodate so large a group...
Olivier is the sole ace in this nearyarborough, but he is superb. After all, he's been playing Prometheus in various guises since Richard III, and Weir is a worthy successor to Archie Rice of The Entertainer. The high point of the film is his accusation from the dock, an indictment of English life for being stuffy, unsympathetic, and dirty-minded, as powerful a speech in its way as was the song "Why Should I Bother to Care?" that Rice sang in the other film. Sir Laurence points up the full character of the schoolteacher so well that at times...
...math and physics is "discovery": rather than memorizing Newton's laws of motion, for example, students are led through experiments to conclude that the laws exist. But history is a can of worms: its "truths" tend to be value judgments, not physical facts. However much a superb teacher leads a student to true investigation, not timid indoctrination, the final conclusion is partly subjective...
...presume you are acquainted with the articles by Messrs. Boyle and Angell in Sports Ilustrated and the New Yorker, both about the pre-Yale game week, and which I thought were superb jobs. About the former I had a letter in the 19th Hole in the issue of January 7th, which you may have seen, and which, I think caught the spirit of the article...
Only 20 and a singer for barely three years, Barbra seldom hits a note on pitch, but she slides into tune with such grace that her quavers often sound intended. Much as she denies learning from other singers, her style is unmistakably Lena Home's, and she makes superb use of it. She closes her show with a slow version of Happy Days Are Here Again that lends the song an ambivalent sorrow only a very wise girl could dream...