Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitable Comparisons. There is bland acceptance of the fact that much that is now truly and distinctively British was originally borrowed from abroad-largely from France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton...
...Manhattan's City Center, Marcel Marceau was for half the evening the superb solo mime he had proved before; in the second half, introducing his famous Compagnie de Mime, he performed movingly in a "mimodrama" of Gogol's The Overcoat. This igth century tale of an out-at-elbows clerk who for years toils obsessively to own a fine overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against...
...Lillian Hellman, deftly explores the character of a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.): Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, set in a Mineola, I.I. synagogue, brilliantly and with high humor admixes ancient rite with modern psychology; The Miracle Worker owes its excellence to the superb performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as they re-create the early childhood of blind deaf-mute Helen Keller; The Best Man sketches characters who are a mile wide and an inch deep, but nonetheless offers swift, glib and enjoyable theatrical journalism about campaigning politicians in action. Three musicals...
Carroll's future is clouded by George Washington's past. The red brick campus near Foggy Bottom has 11,000 students, a fine medical school, a superb location three blocks from the White House. But under the 32-year reign of President Cloyd H. Marvin, who resigned last year, George Washington never really took fire. It looks and acts like a commuter college, and two-thirds of its faculty (648) work part time. "We have a good university," says Board Chairman Newell W. Ellison, "but it isn't what it ought...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder happily combines a cynical commentary on grey-flannel suitors with a superb comedy of men's-room humors and watercooler politics...