Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season as the huntsman Erik. But the real standout of a standout cast was Soprano Leonie Rysanek in the role of Senta, the self-sacrificing heroine who in characteristic Wagnerian style must die to secure the redemption of her lover. Her singing in the usually static second act was superb; her soprano rose and fell around London's steady tone, shot off in bursts of color, swooned and sighed with a purity that had the audience breathless. It was the finest Senta in Metropolitan memory-and one of the finest performances in Vienna-born Soprano Rysanek's distinguished...
North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with Gary Grant and Eva Marie Saint...
North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Cary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...
...novelists write more successfully about bad boys than do sociologists or judges, it is because fiction need not analyze or propose solutions. The late Joyce Gary was no sociologist, no judge; he was a superb storyteller, and his portrait of misbehaving youngsters in this 1940 novel (published in the U.S. for the first time) is both sympathetic and accurate. If it lacks the weight and ironic wisdom of some of his later work (The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised), it nevertheless shows the famous Gary virtues: a clear and economical style, a sharp wit, and a joy in human...
Moving one step further toward the Intercollegiate title, the squash team won all nine games Tuesday against a strong Williams squad. Far more dangerous than their 9-0 defeat indicated, the Ephs lept to early leads in four of the six individual matches before falling to superb Crimson comebacks...