Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hated him. He was stealing the show." Steal it he did, with a devastating caricature of Broadway Producer Hal Prince; but in his next appearance, as Richard Miller in Take Me Along, he failed to steal top honors from the masterful Jackie Gleason, and had to settle merely for superb notices...
...holds a high place among living American authors. This is not entirely accounted for by Warren's talent; there are better poets, novelists and critics now practicing, and there may well be better professors at Yale. Diversity is the secret. For some reason, while a man who is superb in one field does not necessarily have a really ineluctable image, it is impossible to ignore someone who is almost superb in several fields at once, e.g., a reasonably good pianist who can conduct orchestras and write musical comedies. Author Warren, who has won, and earned, Pulitzer Prizes for fiction...
Along with this fertile, if predictable, plot Bergman has his usual advantages of his troupe's superb acting and unparalleled camerawork by Gunnar Fischer. The story gives ample room for the irony of inversion, where good and bad are reversed, at which Bergman is so adroit. One wonders, then, how a director could possibly ruin the film...
...Neill's intellectual conception of his characters is tremendously impressive; no embarrassment interferes with his accuracy in analyzing their relationships. He has written an essay, a superb one, which survives theatrically because it was grafted onto the stage with surgical skill...
Teacher Walter Merlino last week provided his students with a superb example" of the Midtown dogma of doing, not learning. He suggested that his class go to the Los Angeles Federal Building to join women demonstrators in a march against atomic testing. "You should feel strongly against atom testing before you march." cautioned Merlino, who then talked foggily about fallout, concluding: "The point is to at least stop the U.S. and at least cut the amount of fallout in half. Who wants to go?" Every child, presumably filled with strong feelings, raised his hand...