Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They thereby focused attention on one of the most remarkable men in U.S. public life: five-term Governor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How she), 59, who wears a mop of wildly tousled hair as though it were a banner of independence, and qualifies on the record as a superb politician, although he breaks every rule in the book-except the one for winning elections...
...trifles, her adolescent granddaughter who indulges in mischief and fabricates melodrama, a rather Shavian manservant who cannot bear being criticized, and upstairs, dying, a butler who for 40 years has ruled the household. Into it, as a companion for the granddaughter, comes a primly dressed woman with a superb and transforming knowledge of gardens, a gift for ingratiating herself with people, and an obviously beclouded past. How beclouded is made clear when a judge (Percy Waram), who is a friend of the family, comes to lunch...
Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature and Visitor at the Princeton Institute in 1953-54, called the appointment "wonderful, just superb. I think the University is exceedingly fortunate in having Oppenheimer accept the invitation," he added in a telephone interview...
...books to 20th century Germany's Käthe Kollwitz, the West German government assembled 153 key works from 26 German museums and collectors. The result proves that though German artists rarely top the rich palettes of Italian painters or outdo the French in taste and elegance, as superb draftsmen they are second to none...
...kind of perverse romanticism: as a Norman knight ringed by his enemies, he died to show the English that it was "the Norman custom to stand fast." This mutedly rationalist ending of an otherwise excellent book will fail to satisfy many readers. It shows, once again, what a superb and poetically accurate work is T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, with its far nobler picture of a man who had put aside ambition-even spiritual ambition-and found a faith so strong that he could joyfully accept death as its price: I have had a tremor...