Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results . Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting drama which yet retains much of the novelist's insight and generous wisdom...
...Europe-eleven months of the year, will give more than 100 concerts this year alone. Although he is a superb performer of the German-Austrian repertoire, he is also a first-rate player of the moderns, for whom he changes the height of his adjustable piano bench-two inches higher for Prokofiev than for Beethoven-because he believes a high bench helps him produce some of the percussive effects of modern music. Little is left to chance. Everywhere he goes on tour, Browning carries a small black book-its pages crammed with the serial numbers of melodious pianos located...
...eleven on his father's cattle ranch in tiny (pop. 500) Okanagan Falls, B.C. "There wasn't much to do in 'Okay Falls' except hunt and fish,", Kenny explains, "so my brother and I built a chute and started riding." A natural athlete with superb coordination and balance, Kenny quickly learned to keep his feet loose in the stirrups, developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise of the 1961 tour, McLean won ten "ridings," placed in the money in 34 rodeos, earned...
...iridescent, fresh as a breeze, it sometimes suggested Debussy or Massenet, but never lost its own highly personal charm. Underneath the sophistication, critics found far more real thought than they had ever credited Hahn with before. Said the Sueddeutsche Zeitung: "Behind every note one feels a man with a superb feeling for his time and a handwriting of his very...
...Dick Powell Show (NBC), a loosely strung "anthology series" with room for a wide variety of stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey Rooney in a superb portrayal of a lonely seaman in Somebody's Waiting, Milton Berle as a blackjack dealer in Doyle Against the House, Jack Carson as a beatnik in Who Killed Julie Greer? Under the subtle direction of Ralph Nelson, Four Star's Three Soldiers (about mercenaries...