Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor, General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry...
...deep should well-amused readers poke beneath the jaunty black humor and Joycean wordplay? This remains a perennial Burgess puzzle. He is a composer and music critic, a one-time lecturer in phonetics, a learned, lapsed Catholic, and-not the least-a superb writer. Unlike Graham Greene, he does not separate his "serious" novels from his "entertainments." Rather, he tries to make them all two-for-one propositions...
...title and joined Mike Ananis on the All-League team but Harvard couldn't do any better than a fourth-place tie with Brown. The Crimson lacked staying power for the most part--depth, especially at midfield, was a problem. Marty Cain, Captain Tom Nicosia and Jim Kilkowski were superb as front-line strength, but whenever they rested, Harvard had trouble. Best game of the year was a come from behind 10-9 upset of Princeton. The season was the best since...
...eight divisional titles, compiled a record of 321 victories against 142 losses and 31 ties. A master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap...
While the results of the competition .did nothing to challenge male pre-eminence in Bach, they did indicate that the ladies, whose number has included such superb stylists as Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck, may know something about Bach's music that men don't. Contest Founder-President Raissa Tselentis does not go so far as to say that Bach, the father of 20 children, was not a manly composer. But she does suggest that "we women tend to be more spiritual. It is the spiritual side of women that responds to Bach...