Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with one glaring exception, adequate or better. Miss Holly, in a pivotal part as Poole's Negro secretary, is often ludicrous in her intensity. But Lemmon is a success in his first big serious role; if he learns to vary his expression and tone of voice, he will be superb. As the sheriff, Dekker is magnificent, the dominant figure every time he is on stage...
...since 1946 a hawk-nosed lefthander with a marvelously smooth motion has been setting down National League batters with such consistency that he now must be classed with the giants of the game. Last week Milwaukee's 39-year-old Warren Spahn could look back on another superb season at an age when most stars have long since retired to sell insurance or peddle beer...
Becket does not wait to be sought. He is a superb salesman and organizer who goes after his clients, convinces them with facts and figures that the building will make money. He prefers the "systems approach" in which his firm does the entire job for a client-from the selection of the site to the color of cocktail napkins...
...sample of his prose at its best, I quote a section from this book where B.B. describes the idyllic beauty of his trips in and around Bergamo when he was gathering material at the turn of the century for his superb book on Lorenze Lotto...
...stylistic excellences of this piece, however; far surpass its ineptitudes. The children's dialogue is superb, illustrating the mixture of sensitivity and incomprehension which comprise Mr. Leland's attitude toward his father's death. The piece is also constructed with obvious care--and it is this sort of care which has made this story so much better than its antecedent...