Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples of academic excellence (including a pair of female nudes by Raymond Puccinelli and Oldtimer William Zorach, both entitled Invocation) look even, finer than they really were...
...bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...
...classical plays for tourist audiences, performed under floodlights in the ruins of Pompeii. Like other Italians, the pickpockets were getting ready for the tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where artful dodgers of long practice instructed beginners on the finer points of fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb...
Bartok: Quartet No. 6 (Gertler String Quartet; English Decca, 7 sides). Bartok's six quartets are possibly the most impressive since Beethoven; in the finer moments of this last quartet (1939), as in Beethoven's last, the great breadth and depth of the composer is revealed clearly and simply. Performance and recording: good...
...International Wool Secretariat, which represented sheepmen in the British Dominions, joined forces to do something about wool: they formed a new organization, the Wool Bureau, Inc., in Manhattan. By research, the bureau hopes to find some method of treating coarser wool to give it the same properties as the finer grades...