Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kenny McBain (Malcolm) was superb. He sulked, raged, spoke nonchalantly of impossible exploits. Occasionally he displayed an earnestness at once irrestible and absurd. Other times he sat on his throne, demanding obeisance yet remaining withdrawn. His final cry--"I can't even believe in my own fantasies"--confirmed the rightness of his characterization. The cry was a surprise, but after it came you felt you'd expected it all along...
...leading the Bruins to 22 victories and two ties in his 29 games. Even in U.C.L.A.'s 21-20 loss to Southern California, now the U.S.'s top-ranked team. Beban passed for 301 yards and two touchdowns, was told after the game by U.S.C.'s superb Halfback O. J. Simpson: "Gary, you're the greatest." Sportswriters and broadcasters agreed. By a slim margin over Simpson, Quarterback Beban, 21, was elected winner of the Heisman Trophy as college football's player of the year...
Seltzer's Fisk is immediately impressive, ultimately superb. He has been stuffed from neck to calf and uses his enormous bulk convincingly to great advantage. He sways dangerously back and forth when faced by his dissatisfied mistress, breaks into an anguished trot to keep up with his evermoving lunatic father in the magnificent asylum scene, paws the stage instinctively like a bull, and is forever grabbing objects with intent to break or mangle, only to realize frustratedly that he has no reason to break them. "Your hands, Jim. Always your hands," says Josie resisting his brusque advances; sensing the importance...
...situation was similar at Yale, until this fall. Two seniors quit the Yale Daily News to begin publishing The New Journal, a bi-weekly blend of solid reporting, lively literary criticism, fiction and photography. The writing is consistently good and often superb; everything from book reviewing to reporting on the Pentagon demonstration is approached from a fresh angle...
...makes a warm graceful Falstaff and whose voices takes on the precariously high-pitched part with expansive ease. Ronald Hedlund, who plays Ford, has a wonderful, thick baritone which contrasts with Glossop's, even when the two men are singing in exactly the same range. The women too are superb with Beverly Bower and Carole Boaarde as stand-outs...