Word: superbness
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...political error, though, is not in being a hypocrite; that is his moral failure. His political error is that he was caught by his own rhetoric. His war was a superb success that won him incredible political support, but Bush declared it to be over before it was over...
...Dreesmans, as for most farm families whose children scatter, the Christmas holidays meant a time of reunion. So it was that on Dec. 30, 1987, Agnes Dreesman, a superb cook and flower arranger who frequently contributed culinary and horticultural creations to church and garden-club benefits, readied their house for a celebration. Marilyn, widowed in 1984, had flown in from Honolulu with the three grandchildren. Robert too would be home for dinner...
...sheaf of related stories called The Lost World (boyhood is what has been lost) gives a nicely measured picture of a kindly, weighty father and a narrator-son who has not yet achieved gravitas. But the entirely adult stunner of an otherwise boyish book is a superb story called Smoke, about a failing baseball pitcher who attends the funeral of a teammate. We don't learn why the teammate died, or why the pitcher has lost his stuff, his smoke. All that matters is the single word with which the pitcher answers two terrible questions. The first is asked...
STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (London). In this historic 1954 performance of an endlessly ravishing opera, a master conductor (Erich Kleiber), superb singers (Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac and Hilde Gueden) and an outstanding orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) blend color, vitality and balance with intelligence and resonant beauty...
Ireland's economy is stagnating. Its unemployment rate in the late 1980s was a dismal 17 percent. Many of Ireland's best and brightest have left their homeland with their superb education for 'the West,' only to be denied a home in the United States due to immigration quotas. These young people are forced to resort to living as illegal aliens, taking jobs in nursing, child care, and forms of menial labor...