Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shifting with the Wind. Canadians know Diefenbaker as a skilled politician, a superb speechmaker and campaigner. Preaching that one-party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
...wrangling between moderates and conservatives last summer, then had worked loyally for Candidate Goldwater, though from the start he took a dim view of Barry's chances and of the way he campaigned. In Bliss, the Republicans finally have what they desperately need: a chairman who is a superb technician, acceptable to all wings of the party, and less interested in ideology than in electing Republicans. Says he: "My philosophy is that I'm for a Republican when he's nominated...
Shrout had already broken freshman, University, pool, and NCAA-freshman records with a superb 1:47.5 in the 200-yard freestyle. This is his third University record; he already holds the individual medley and 100-yard butterfly marks...
Lithgow acted beautifully, but still left me dissatisfied. His reading was superb, but he was unfortunately incapable, it seemed, of translating the incredibly complicated emotional range of his speeches into an equally complicated--and therefore plausible--characterization...
...years ago. Crisscrossing the country for eight concerts, Perlman drew rapturous reviews: "heavenly, beautiful," "already a master," "in the front row of the very few great violinists of our day." Said Michal Smoira, critic for Tel Aviv's Haaretz: "His ability and general knowledge of music are so superb and so extraordinary that his technique and manual ability are taken as a matter of course. Beyond all that, Perlman creates a tonal feeling which sings in the ear and shakes the soul...