Word: superb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most notable feature of the show, aside from a few really superb acting jobs, is the intelligent treatment of the enemy. Here are presented carefully and convincingly the dilemma of the Italian fighter with nothing to fight for, the unflinching arrogant faith of the Nazi mind, and more powerful than all this, the intense humanness persisting somehow even amidst the mechanical brutality of modern war. For this alone, "Sahara" is well worth seeing, and, incidentally, worth suffering through the other half of the bill...
Bushnell saw a superb chance to settle old accounts with Boston's Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty. Policeman Timilty's popularity had survived ugly rumors of police corruption, of criminal incompetence in connection with last year's Cocoanut Grove fire (492 burned to death...
Mendelssohn: "Italian" Symphony (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). A superb, warm performance, ranking with Koussevitzky's shimmering Victor version...
...These superb photographs of children are different from others only in their back ground: behind them the world is in ruins and over them the stricken faces of their parents leave their imperishable imprints on child minds. Some of the childish faces are drowsy, dying of fatigue. Some of them are incredibly beautiful, the maturity and purpose on their pondering faces giving to the photographs the wild quality of early Christian...
Surf in Her Head. The best feature of The Walsh Girls is its superb characterization of Lydia. Reaching her 40th birthday in the summer of 1935, teacher of high-school English to classes that were now filled with the children of her old school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class...