Word: superbness
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...enjoyed and appreciated your superb Essay on the psychology of chess [Sept. 4]. Oddly, I have never learned to play chess, but after reading about the people who do play and why they play, I think I should take it up. Like Dr. Karl Menninger, I need a hobby in which destructiveness and aggressiveness can be worked off. Like Dr. Menninger also, I think it is time for me to give up hunting because it is too destructive of our remaining wildlife...
...team's lacks of familiarity with the Restic system. And unfortunately for the Crimson, the 72 team has lost its most on sistent student clutch player halfback Richie Gatto who is campaigning for McGovern this fall, Gatto's departure casts some uncertainty over what appeared to be a really superb backfield. Without Gatto, Restic will be forced to start a halfback who suffers from the same inexperience with the Restic system that plagued the Crimson...
...taking over the husband's tax business, lending him his supply of macaroons and hurrying him out to follow his wife around the streets of London and win her heart again. The film would be a laughable travesty were it not directed by Carol Reed, who made such superb films as The Third Man, Odd Man Out and Outcast of the Islands. That makes it a sad travesty...
...prizefighter and the finely chiseled, romantic head of a Chopin. Yet fellow dancers sometimes openly laugh at his exaggerated, stalking movements and the way his arms tend to undulate like reeds under a river. Technically, he is solidly schooled, and his physical embodiment of a musical line is superb. Yet one choreographer, sardonically noting the audience roars and whistles that greet his appearances, says: "I think he goes onstage with only one mission: to present himself as a salable commodity. He tends to relegate everything else to second place...
...masterpiece of obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there was only one choice: Henry Moore...