Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. The Civil War now take longer to read about than it ook to fight, but the latest book is a good one: a description of Grant's two-year metamorphosis from hesitant commander to superb tactician...
...ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink rib bon; a scene-setting dance by a "cock...
...than the average spectator can be expected to tolerate. Furthermore, Actor Shimura, though at moments transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often superb. The camera work, the cutting, the use of flashback and sound track are spectacularly apt and original. And the great strength of the picture is the total seriousness and importance of what Kurosawa has to say: to live is to love; the rest is cancer...
...gentle woodwinds of camp life and hearthside as well as for the big brasses and percussion of battle. Taking over the work begun by the late Lloyd Lewis with Captain Sam Grant (1950), Author Catton deals with Grant's astonishing growth in two years from hesitant commander to superb tactician...
...Miracle Worker. Superb performances by Actresses Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke, in a far from perfect play, make extremely moving theater of Helen Keller's early life...