Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foolish Wives--the most wonderful picture in America--by and with Von Stroheim, 'the man you will love to hate'. The most costly, gigantic, superb and artistic screen spectacle ever devised and presented either in America or anywhere else in the civilized world. Reproducing in all its glory Monte Carlo the capital of the world of chance. Where Even Saints Are Sinners...
...well organized attack, the Freshman hockey team easily forced the St. Mark's sextet into a 6-0 surrender when it sent a smoothly working machine against the Blue and White skaters at Southboro yesterday afternoon. The game was featured by a few individual performances, but it was the superb team-play of the yearlings that rolled up the 6-0 score against the strong opposition...
Soloist's Rendering Superb...
...people in the audience Thursday night had ever heard of Mr. Nyiregyhazi before. Few will ever forget him. They did not know he was a Hungarian of only eighteen years of age. His playing of Liszt's pyrotechnic concerto was superb, and he surpassed both previous performances in Boston. His technique was flawless; his control of tone in the more sentimental passages was in excellent taste. Fortunately "Sadko" had sufficiently aroused a decidedly frigid audience to give him the warm applause he merited...
What is that point of view with which your reviewer, along with Captain Coningsby Dawson, so vigorously quarrels? Is it not that of the human individual in the midst of a herd enterprise, war? What Tolstoi painted with such superb restraint in "War and Peace" and "Sebastopol", namely: what happens to individuals when the state orders them out to kill their fellow men. It is the tragedy of the State's failure to touch the souls of men, the inevitable violence and injustice to individuals in any military machine, which "Three Soldiers" depicts afresh. It has been the theme...