Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortnight's vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried...
Richard Waring, with his exemplary diction and easy projection, turns the relatively minor role of the Bishop of Carlisle into a major contribution. Helped by inspired writing to be sure, his long denunciation of Bolingbroke is superb acting. There is something noble and thrilling about an individual in the right willing to oppose the mob in the wrong even though he may be scaling his own doom. Thus has it always been: Antigone, Saint Joan, Sir Thomas More, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Martin Luther King. Carlisle is of their company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live...
Mitchell's other documentary was equally superb. He went into the homes of two men in Chicago-one a salesman, the other an artist who had lost an arm in the Spanish Civil War-and let them tell the stories of their lives. It was natural, intimate, replete with insight-the kind of thing that television is uniquely equipped to do but which is seldom attempted and almost never so artfully achieved. At the end, viewers might have thought that they had just finished reading two brilliant novels...
Finally, Janis agreed to delay his departure to accommodate Goodman. At the first joint rehearsal, he won the immediate respect of the musicians for his superb technique. But Goodman refused to allow a second rehearsal of the infrequently performed Phil Lang arrangement of the score, trusting to his band's ingenuity to carry it over the tough spots. Ingenuity, it turned out, was not enough. Because Clarinetist Goodman insisted on tootling from the center of the stage, the piano blocked him from Janis' view, forcing the pianist to crane sideways. To make matters worse, most of the time...
...when he was 27, won him a National Book Award and justified acclaim as the best American short storyist to appear since Salinger. It was a sour, funny look at Jewish life in the U.S., and the only doubt critics had was whether an author capable of such superb genre-painting would ever trouble himself to attempt the bigger (and presumably more important) picture...