He was just terribly good". Bradbury described Ishiguro's work of the time as "retained, recessive, low-key, powerfully effective.
It was powerfully effective.
When we frame the problem as one where White people are participating in a system of oppression unconsciously, without malice, it absolves all blame and affirms a state of racial innocence: "We're not bad people, we're just powerfully-socialized good people".
He always understood that we might be starved for beauty (though his notion of beauty was powerfully refined), for good talk, and, especially, for the eternal dance of young men and women, meeting, sizing each other up, parting again, theorizing about love, about taste, and then choosing someone, perhaps for a lifetime.
This young southpaw, this "kid," was an amazingly good, powerfully exciting, unique-attack guitar player.
(Chinen) * DIANNE REEVES AND FREDDY COLE (Tonight) Ms. Reeves, a powerfully gifted singer whose "Good Night, and Good Luck" soundtrack is up for a Grammy Award, revisits another good genre effort, "Christmas Time is Here" (Blue Note); she shares billing with the winsome crooner Freddy Cole.
The nocturnal scene is powerfully realised: "Mysterious goods trains, covered with palls and gliding on like vast weird funerals … the half miles of coal pursuing in a detective manner …" An encounter with a genial character called Lamps sets Jackson on his new and brighter course.
Romaine Sawyers gave the hosts an early lead with a powerfully struck drive, following good work from Tom Bradshaw.
Wallingford Riegger's music — all the music was recorded but sounded very good — held up powerfully, and the prepared-piano score by Henry Cowell (which replaced a lost Cowell score for "Deep Song") was also strong.
It's a Wonderful Life remains a classic American film because it appeals to a powerfully mythic world in which good, represented by Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey, always triumphs over evil, embodied by Lionel Barrymore's Mr. Potter.
