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...that rumor had bandied about as possible successors to Dodds, Goheen was as startled as anyone over "this elevation to sudden eminence." But like Harvard and Yale before it, Princeton had dipped into obscurity and pulled out a plum. "He is," says Classicist Oates of Goheen. "one of the ablest men in the whole damn teaching profession...
...Princeton Classics Department. As a teacher, his students found him intense and scintillating in his presentation of "meaty" material. His lectures, they said, were a torrent of vital information that left students with aching writing hands when they left the lecture room. "He's one of the ablest men in the whole damm profession," Whitney J. "Mike" Oates, chairman of the department said once of Goheen, who was his freshman advisor when the new president first came over from Lawrenceville...
...mutual choice made years ago, falling apart. It was progressive Republican Duff who first demonstrated the vulnerability of the Republican organization grown fat, arrogant and corrupt. With the help of the Grundy machine, Duff was elected governor in 1946-and was one of the state's ablest. A major reason for his success was his refusal to show fear or favor toward the machine that demanded both. The breakup was swift and spectacular: Duff's Senate election in 1950 was almost as bitter to the Old Guardsmen as Democrat Joe Clark's Philadelphia mayoralty...
Bitter Honeymoon, by Alberto Moravia. Sardonic short stories from the fine Italian hand of one of the ablest novelists alive on his favorite theme, the battle of the sexes-that war in which all victories are Pyrrhic (TIME...
...lifetime output, ranging from an early landscape done in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was born in 1830 (into a mixed French-Portuguese-Jewish family), to his self-portrait done the year he died in 1903, leaves little doubt that, experimentation aside, Pissarro was one of the ablest and most dedicated of France's 19th century painters...