Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scott's superb sense of his audience and the self-satirical aspect of his humor not only save the senator from being a windbag, but enable him to establish an intimacy with his listeners. In small groups, he will expound on some subject for a while, suddenly realize that he is beginning to prattle, and punctuate his monologue with a quick self-deflating dig that endears him to his audience. Answering a question at one informal gathering, he waxed almost poetic at some length about the glories of the Senate, finishing with the words, "and there is no other group...
While even skillful cameramen cannot transform Bates's boringly vacant expressions, elsewhere the photography is superb. It captures the harshness of the landscape and the flowers which spring up at Easter time. And it focuses on the expressions of the people of Crete (thus listed in the credits...
...then, unfortunately, there's Alan Bates. Zorba the Greek is a superb film anyway. But anyone who has read the book would join me in adding the "anyway." For in the novel, the Englishman whom Bates portrays is a complex character, whom the reader respects as much as he loves Zorba. Zorba may embody life, but Zorba's boss hardly embodies lifelessness...
While the performance of specific junior colleges varies from dismal to superb, they are doing best in preparing their students for senior colleges. Medsker and California's Dr. Dorothy M. Knoell recently found that 75% to 80% of the junior college students who transfer succeed in earning their bachelor degrees, and that as a group, their senior college grades average only a shade lower than those of the students who spend all four years on the bigger campus...
...acting of the leads is uniformly superb. But even here, I think it was this particular form of production that focused their various excellences. Laura Esterman, who played Lady Macbeth, used her rich voice to the full, and to telling effect...