Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shame! How can you list "the superior translations of La Commedia" and omit the verse rendering by John Ciardi...
...They are swinging wildly," said President Johnson last week in an apt description of the latest, desperate meat-ax assaults by the Communist Viet Cong. With the monsoon season well under way, the Reds were gambling on the combined effects of weather and surprise to nullify the superior power of the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies...
...stage, however, it take the greatest of by the greatest of make the monologue interesting. Mrs. Hamlin decidedly superior . Her face is quite mobile makes good use of it, chief weapon is a lilting, voice that is perfect for the idoclatress of the she could find a way of the patter-song pace to the first few minutes, the cost of cutting a few might be able to hold the interest of her audience would be an extraordinary complishment...
...jazz translations of Something's Gotta Give and Wives and Lovers with his sugar-cured ballads. Though his stage personality is about as imposing as his name, he exudes the kind of shy, squinty-eyed sincerity that bowls women over. His songbook is a treatise on good taste, superior arrangements and gimmick-free delivery, after the style of Frank Sinatra, who calls Jones "the best potential singer in the business." Jack, the son of Movie Tenor Allan Jones (Donkey Serenade) and Actress Irene Hervey, grew up "in the trade," spent eight years on the road before Pop decided that...
After reading it, and reading selectively in any of the six superior translations of La Commedia available in the U.S.,* no reasonable man can deny that Dante was indeed a titanic personality and that La Commedia is a masterpiece: a colossal but exquisite crystal in which the total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic...