Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting is compelling--no finer cast could have been assembled, particularly in the choice of the six girls, all of whom excel in the shrewdly and sympathetically drawn characters. The play, though, belongs to Grete Mosheim. To the role of Erna, her first appearance on the American stage, she brings a magnificent technique, an exciting individuality, a warmth and depth unexcelled, and gives the most merorable performance of the year...
...them to hand in to you any book or magazine (Popular Science, National Geographic, Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, Colliers, etc.) with which they have finished, and which they would be willing to pass on to some service man who is in Sick Bay. I honestly know of no finer way undergraduates can help at this time than the one I have just mentioned...
...wife, Carol, currently separated from the author: "I suppose every married couple faces a situation like this. Most women would go to Reno and call it a day. I want to see it through. . . . If we wait perhaps John and I will be all the better and finer for it. ... There won't be the blind devotion, the dumb trust, but there will be a new understanding. . . . This is something all men go through. . . . This isn't a break. . . . I've submerged myself for John Steinbeck. I became part of him. I wrote verse...
...define the term. If you want to be fancy and throw in references to "collective improvisation rhythmically integrated," you're a better man than I am. However, I think it's safe to say that at a jam session you're liable to hear a much finer brand of jazz music than you would anywhere else. In the first place, the whole thing is completely informal. A few musicians get together and do their best to play what they think is good jazz music. And they generally have the right idea, often inspired by no end of liquid refreshment. Then...
...prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers were inclined to agree that U. S. Indians are far finer artists than they have generally been considered...