Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence of violinist and conductor Oscar Shumsky. Shumsky is a prominent faculty member of the Juilliard School and an honorary director of the Violin Society of America. Yet he is not well known outside musical circles or beyond the New York area. He should be. He is a superb violinist and a superb music coach, as the concert revealed. Shumsky has a clear sense of professionalism, and evidently instilled the same sense in HRO, which became an unusually responsive body under his direction. He employs an instructive rather than brilliant technique; he knows exactly what he wants to achieve musically...
...superb job of guiding that legislation through the faculty. He met with a lot of resistance but handled it well. I don't think he ever annoyed anyone," Beer said...
Between 1912 and 1922, Virginia Woolf wrote two novels, Night and Day and Jacob's Room, which secured her reputation, and revised a third, The Voyage Out. Almost weekly she reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, composing superb little essays. She married Leonard Woolf ("Precious Mongoose" in her letters) and with him founded the Hogarth Press, for which she functioned as chief talent scout and reader of manuscripts as well as typesetter (on the dining-room table). During this decade the press published, among other titles, Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, Poems by T.S. Eliot and Story of the Siren...
While De Laurentiis' technicians pay lip service to the original special effects of Willis O'Brien, their disdain for the old stop-motion techniques is thinly disguised. It saddens me that many superb technicians of stop-motion animation have found it increasingly difficult to work. The rationale has been that the slow, painstaking process of frame-by-frame photography has grown prohibitively expensive...
...gaze that is as candid, guileless-and impenetrably secretive-as a cat's. Nearly every one of the 55 artworks seems a confident invocation of the idea of permanence. "To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again," said the ancient Egyptians. This superb show eloquently illustrates that point...