Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mistakes. Born 30 years sooner, Runnells might well have been a candidate for baseball's Hall of Fame. A scientific hitter in the mold of Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, Runnells smacks clean line drives, rarely swings at a bad pitch. He steals an occasional base, is a superb buntsman and a meticulous fielder. One mistake he rarely makes: hitting home runs. "When I get one over the fence," he says, "I'm doing something wrong," and in twelve seasons Runnells has cleared the fence only 46 times. "I was born to hit to leftfield," he explains...
...Erih Kos. A whale of a social satire by a gifted Yugoslavian who pokes superb fun at conformity-in a Peoples' Republic and everywhere else...
...COMEDIES: Elaine May (TIME, Sept. 26, 1960) has finally finished her long-fermented play. If it contains her own wild and uncommon brilliance, it will be superb. Called A Matter of Position, it is vaguely described as a protest against society. The star is her comic partner, Mike Nichols (Oct. 25). S. N. Behrman's Lord Pengo (Nov. 11) is an adaptation of his biography of Art Dealer Joseph Duveen, played by Charles Boyer. Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} has been tinkling with a French play about the wedding night of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Sidestepping...
...Nefertiti and Weatherly jockeyed for the start of their own elimination race. A balmy 12-knot breeze riffled the Atlantic. Aboard a tender, members of the Race Committee, which had laid out a 24-mile windward-leeward course, checked their chronometers and studied the 12-meters through binoculars. A superb boat in light air, Weatherly was already the commanding favorite. Deftly, Mosbacher beat Ted Hood to the start, had a three-length lead crossing the line. He increased the margin until at the finish Weatherly was 13 boat lengths and 1 min. 26 sec. in front...
...only a traveler; Napoleon was very much more. With Napoleon, Moorehead uses what might be merely historical pageant to dramatize the impact of European technology on African barbarity. It was as a young (29) revolutionary general that Bonaparte went to Egypt. Although the outcome is known, Moorehead's superb narrative of the French adventure has the quality of suspense. Napoleon brought a small force by modern standards of mass war (36,000, including sailors), but his riflemen alone doomed the ruling cavalry aristocracy of Cairo to utter defeat. Also, he carried the future in his own baggage train...