Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphasis on abstraction, the art committee achieved a remarkable variety. A secretary may take dictation under the eyes of John Trumbull's Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, while another types letters near some floating rectangles by Mark Rothko. A client, his mind a mass of figures, hustles past a superb African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist...
...more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
...sported a batting average a flashy 90 points over his lifetime .272 mark. The young father of eight led both leagues in hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle for first place. For a superb fielder who was always kidded as a patsy at the plate (New York Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle used to taunt him, "Don't forget your glove"), it was quite a performance...
...more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
...readers may have been missing something. Beautifully translated by Edouard Roditi, the book tells the story of young Memed who grows up in a mud-walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages and combines the brutality of Simon Legree with the buffoonery of Captain Hook. Readers will have to remind themselves from time to time that all this is happening in the 20th century...