Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coat of arms showing a camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...
...incarnation. Under the seamed cliff of his forehead, his eyes lurk in shadowed caves, agile, probing, grave, blithesome and wise. Scofield's art conceals art and achieves a translucency of spirit that summons up noble half-forgotten phrases like "sweet reason" and "gentle honor." In a superb cast, George Rose is comic as a ubiquitous Common Man, and Keith Baxter makes the young Henry VIII an uncut diamond of the Renaissance new learning...
Quarterback: Roman Gabriel, 21, North Carolina State; 6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs. A superb passer-and the unanimous choice of the pro scouts-Gabriel is certain to be picked in the first round of the pro draft. Says one scouting report: "He throws excellent short passes, hard and fast, and he's physically rugged. This means that he is strong enough to wait until the last moment to deliver, allowing his receivers to get into ideal position-and he can absorb the beating he'll have to take for waiting so long." The pros also praise...
...years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly as he came, in what seemed a superb gesture of modesty and abdication...
Felicia Lamport, 45, is the wife of a professor at the Harvard Law School. Her illustrator, in fact-the book is full of superb sketches by Edward Gorey-is a fellow she met when he was an under graduate at Harvard. Now the mother of two teenagers, she was raised in Manhattan and educated at Vassar, once published a book of reminiscences of her childhood called Mink on Weekdays. She is in her fifth year of work on a novel ("Don't wait to read it, your life expectancy isn't that long"). But, as her professor husband...