Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reports the bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal's superb cartoonist, Prisoner 69652, Sammy Reese, murderer...
...entire cast of Bird Man is superb, especially Neville Brand as a soft-spoken prison guard and Telly Savalas as Stroud's humorous cell neighbor, both of whom break through the bird man's embittered aloofness to show him that the community of man is not all enemy country. The film's overall indictment is of the penal system as a profoundly damning instrument of society. Bird Man of Alcatraz argues forcefully and with eloquence that the destruction of individual dignity, the reduction of a human soul to a numbered automaton, is as great a crime...
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In a superb retelling, the great saint's life reveals physical anguish endured with spiritual strength...
Included on tomorrow's program will be two local premieres: the Symphony in D by Mehul, a celebrated contemporary and favorite of Beethoven; and the superb Third Piano Concerto by Bartok, the last work finished by the composer before he died in New York. Soloist in the concerto will be Katja Andy...
...Dickens were "dead corpses which retain their forms perfectly in the coffin, but crumble to dust as soon as exposed to air." Second Deadly Silas. Howells' novels were written in a prose that both friends such as Twain and detractors such as H. L. Mencken admitted to be superb; and they were written about subjects that mattered-the hardening caste strata in U.S. society, the pain of divorce, the wrongs of a laissez-faire economy. Yet before his death in 1920, with the realism he had preached unshakably in vogue, he wrote to his friend Henry James...