Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon deserves some credit for being the first U.S. President to extend a conciliatory hand to Mao's China. He eliminated the U.S. ban on travel to China, and had the temerity to call China by its legal name. But the great chop forward was executed by the superb play of the Chinese table-tennis champions at world competition in Nagoya, Japan (see SPORT). Peking obviously saw no danger of humiliation in inviting the American team, which ranked about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid by Chairman...
...generals?say, William C. Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai? Clearly, the Yamashita decision is part of U.S. law until the Supreme Court or Congress amends it. Unlike Yamashita, moreover, Westmoreland had superb communications with his troops. But even if he is prosecuted for My Lai, which seems totally unlikely, a modern court-martial would unquestionably require detailed proof that Westmoreland had had actual knowledge or reason to know that Calley-style acts were likely to occur, and that he had failed to take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the laws...
...young prosecutor earned national fame and soon challenged the man who had launched him, coming within 65,000 votes of unseating Governor Lehman. When Lehman did not seek reelection, Dewey was easily elected Governor in 1942. In his three terms, he proved a superb administrator and an effective manager of the state's money, building up a $600 million surplus, which he funneled into long-neglected hospitals and highways. He also established the first state commission to combat racial discrimination in employment...
...Nevin who has half of Leonard Whiting's credentials-a good physique-while lacking a strong or even passable voice for Ford's verse. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella, whose combination of wraithlike charm and physicality Lucinda Winslow succeeds very well in conveying. (Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings, poisonings and eye-gougings which Ford probably threw in for his sensation-seeking upper-class audiences-though, then again, seventeenth-century...
...held back mention of the astounding set of 'Tis Pity to the customary tag-end position such matters usually receive in reviews, though this set, designed by a talent named Franco Colavecchio who also did the costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon...