Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have won rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone-or a tiger in the reeds. Said one thoughtful playgoer: "The only other place I've ever seen such a terrifying shift of identity is in a schizophrenic ward. But this...
...Leopold Weiss, Asad had flirted with conversion to Christianity, which he found superior to Judaism "in that it did not restrict God's concern to any one group of people." But one thing put him off: "The distinction it made between the soul and the body, the world of faith and the world of practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity...
Behind the Justice Department's decision lay weeks of work by its chief trustbuster, Assistant Attorney General Stanley Barnes, a hulking (6 ft. 1½ in., 248 lbs.), onetime football star (University of California) and presiding judge of Los Angeles County's Superior Court.* When Bethlehem and Youngstown lawyers came to Barnes with their merger plans, they found him a man hard to convince. One day they showed him a big map of the U.S. divided into zones to prove that Bethlehem's and Youngstown's markets did not overlap. Barnes took one look, then launched...
...other outstanding performer is Michael Plisko, who overcomes, with equal skill, a problem much different from Miss Cass's. Since his is the best role the play offers, it demands a superior ability, providing most of the plot's impetus and interest. Plisko gives a thoughtful performance, creating a character whose stature merits the two hour attention of an audience. Actually, he fills a slight gap left by Thomas Whedon, who plays a Christ-like figure (not unnaturally named Chris), described as one whose mere presence fills his friends with noble sentiments. Since this is a pretty hard role...
Director Otto Ashermann shows what appropriate casting, thoughtful pacing and balanced blocking can do. Calling on actors whose ages mostly fit the play's requirements very well and whose talents are equal, and sometimes superior to, their roles, Ashermann has constructed an edifying and enjoyable evening...