Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Loesser has written six tunes, only one of which--"Why Fight the Feeling?"--is memorable. Unfortunately, Miss Hutton sings it. Astaire dances and sings another number, "Jack and the Beanstalk," and his rendition is superb. He is still the artist which he has always been, and it is an insult to him and to Hollywood that no better vehicle could be found...
...greatest written for the instrument. They are fantastically difficult to comprehend and to play. Hearing them well performed can be a completely overpowering experience. Webster Aitken is giving a series of three programs of these works in Sanders Theatre. He is a remarkable pianist, and his performances have been superb. Aitken has obviously studied these pieces carefully, and has very definite ideas on their interpretation. Naturally, these ideas are open to criticism, but with very few reservations, I found his playing convincing. Furthermore, he has a technique equal to his ideas. It is refreshing to hear a pianist who uses...
...read with much interest your Oct. 30 article concerning . . . the Omar Khayyam controversy . . . Even if, in the "stringing of Oriental pearls on an English thread," Edward FitzGerald has taken extraordinary liberties (including some pearls of his own, such as "The Moving Finger Writes"), I feel he did such a superb job that his work will survive all criticism...
Boschesque crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush...
...Walk Softly, Stranger," the new Valli--Joseph Cotten epic proves only that the impact of "The Third Man" rested on a great deal more than the names in its cast. Perhaps with another superb musical background which could have created a powerful mood or submerged the action completely, these stony characters could have made the movie at least passable. But R.K.O. failed to take this precaution in its haste to whip up another Valli-Cotten pudding...