Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note on quality: I have examined one of the ducklings, and the workmanship is superb. It was put together with precision, so as not to destroy the original fluffiness, and the eyes were replaced with most realistic buttons. It must have been made by some marvelous machine, cleverly designed for the mass production of untold numbers of beribboned quackers, uniformly stuffed, gaily decorated, the whole extraordinary conception executed with consummate skill. An inspiration to us all at Eastertime. Christopher Reed...
...fossilization." There is no fossilization in Boccaccio '70, in which Sophia is again la dònna popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...
Although he is not sure where he is going to use him, Shepard is certain that sophomore Bob St. George will see a lot of action at second or third. St. George is a superb fielder with a good arm and fast hands...
...more unlikely political leader would be difficult to imagine. Tall, spare, bespectacled, Frondizi lacks the charisma of power; he has none of Fidel Castro's flamboyant oratory, transmits none of Ja-nio Quadros' messianic zeal. Yet in office he was a superb politician of maneuver-good at the back-room deal, the clever compromise that resolved disputes but settled no issues. In his four years as President, he had miraculously survived 35 major and innumerable minor crises. Against his countrymen's express wishes, he imposed austerity on Argentina as the only way to right the foundering economy...
...already know what a superb singing group the Harvard Glee Club is, it will probably do you no harm to buy "Songs of the World." Representing "a musical trip around the world conceived as the result of the world tour of the Harvard Glee Club in the summer of 1961," the medley explores a range of musical diversity from Cambridge to Newton. No matter what predigested national musical stereotypes it in-herits, the Glee Club manages to reduce stylistic distinctions to Standard Average European. But if you like the meaty sounds of those well-fed Harvard boys--I do--this...