Word: superbness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such is the range of sentiment these days of those who really fought the last U.S. war, or so it seems in the creative mind of Novelist Josiah Bunting. The Compellas, Robertson and Lemming are fictional characters from Bunting's superb story of that sad war, The Lionheads, written in 1971. Last week, on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he is president, Bunting updated his characters and their concerns. In these odd times the novelist's eye may tell us more about our emotions than the purveyors of polls...
...reliably entertaining read. An important Forsyth character would never deign to walk through the front door of a famous building; the author's knowledge of the innards of 10 Downing Street, the White House and, most impressive of all, the Kremlin, add immeasurably to the sense of reality. Superb mannered pillar of the English middle class. It is at first hard to understand what this man is doing among all these movers and shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion...
...Murray's superb individual effort, which culminated with the rightwinger barreling into the net just after flicking the puck over Catamount goalie Sylvian Turcotte, fired up the Crimson just eight seconds into period three. Freshman Fusco followed with a blast from the point which caught the net above Turcotte's shoulder, and Bob McDonald short-hopped home a Fusco rebound to make...
...country three times the size of France, was officially designated an empire by the Shah, and in one sense it is: its 35.2 million people are divided into many ethnic strains and speak as many as 20 languages, not counting the dialects of remote tribes. The 4 million Kurds, superb guerrilla fighters who live in the western mountains, have at times dreamed of an independent Kurdistan, and today have set up what amounts to an autonomous region. The Baluchis, a nomadic tribe of Sunni Muslims, boycotted the referendum on the Iranian constitution, which they viewed as an attempt to impose...
...that many of the difficult tricks bear the names of the Japanese gymnasts who invented them. But a solid Soviet team, led by Ditiaid, 22, and the exciting Tkachev, 22, may change the language of men's gymnastics. Says former U.S. Olym pian Muriel Grossfeld: "The Soviets are superb, awesome under pressure. At least five of the six Soviet men can do [tricks] only one or two could do last year. It's amazing that a team could have that kind of depth...