Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
Captain Gordon excelled as never before this season. He refrained entirely from his wonted long-range shooting, and his passing and dribbling were things to marvel at. Smith was almost equally good and the two teamed together perfectly. Black and Rudofsky were superb on the defense, as the record of four field goals by Dartmouth indicated...
...program that he directed was designed to demonstrate the thesis of the serious artistic worth of jazz. It was certainly a selection of the best of jazz and was performed in the most expert manner. As the popular dance music of the hour it was superb. But judged by the canons of high music, as Whiteman demanded, it did not seem to be so excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz...
...that the troubles of Messrs. Coolidge, Fall, Denby and Daugherty have largely replaced it for the moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which it was discovered again that Harvard is a perfectly godless place...
...have always considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists. No one of them can touch his; glowing bitterness, his style, nor the superb quality of his satire. He has yet to fuse them in a novel with carefulness of conception and profound development of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless temperament will allow...