Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of me sometimes" and warns him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "advance at your peril," are especially fine. But Gustafson's talents are most in evidence when she launches into song. Her strong, pure soprano elevates Patience's plight to operatic heights, her superb diction rarely obscuring Gilbert's lyrics...
...exercise in belles-lettres rather than statistics, William E. Leuchtenburg's revised and abridged version of Morison and Commager, retitled A Concise History of the American Republic, remains a permanent refreshment. The book is not the physical bargain that The Great Republic is: its illustrations, though superb, are only black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling a revolution to the most absolute monarch...
...reason is defense. The Big Red returns last year's All-American goalie, Dan Mackesey, and a superb set of defensemen. Even though the star net-minder has yet to round into top form, the team has allowed only 32 goals so far this spring...
...warm and spirited lunge for the comic and humane. The opening and closing scenes, and the dance sequences, bear the brunt of this first approach. The balance of the play, particularly the mischief of Puck, the play-within-a-play, and the scenes between the four lovers are superb, carefully crafted instances of the second...
Falls' chronicle, which will delight the sedentary as much as it may in spire fitness freaks, explains why. One must, after all, be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, guard for the New York Knicks or quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. But anyone with enough determination can run the marathon - and even the stragglers do a good deal better than Pheidippides, the gallant Greek who started the madness back in 490 B.C., when he ran 25 miles to tell his fellow Athenians about their troops' great victory at Marathon. Though many have...