Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960, by Theodore H. White. A superb job of reporting, tense as only a few novels are, by a journalist who let his partisanship for Kennedy be known, but did not let it cloud his judgment...
...Weary Magnificence. Scofield, 39, is Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, a superb testimonial to the seldom-realized potential of the individual conscience. With a kind of weary magnificence, Scofield sinks himself in the part, studiously underplays it, and somehow displays the inner mind of a man destined for sainthood. Not content just to applaud, much of the audience stands and noisily shouts its appreciation for his movingly perfect performance. Appearing in the U.S. for the first time, Scofield was preceded by a reputation hard to live up to. From Kenneth Tynan...
Loving Patina. Since the making and collecting of statuettes was the custom in ancient Rome, it was inevitable that the men of the Renaissance should revive it. They read of superb little sculptures like the Hercules that the poet Statius insisted Hannibal had admired and that Sulla used for adorning his banquet table. Fifteenth century connoisseurs not only collected ancient statuettes but also began commissioning contemporary ones...
...willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said of George Russell, who has worked out his own enlargement of tonality to fit the needs of the improvising jazzman. Jazz in the Space Age (Decca 9219) contains his most immediately appealing work, full of superb improvising by Bill Evans and others...
GARY: WEST SIDE STORY continues to be the best in town these days. All the bittersweet flavor of the Broadway play has been faithfully preserved. Leonard Bernstein's superb score and Jerome Robbins' choreography more than make up for occasional bad acting in this version of Romeo and Juilet in gangland...