Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lazybones whom he called Oblomov. The book was largely ignored by readers rushing to buy the latest novel-A Nest of Gentlefolk-by Turgenev. Literate Russians eventually recognized Goncharov's genius, but after nearly a century, his major work is still little known in the West. Probably no finer introduction exists than the supple, perceptive new English translation (the first in 25 years) by David Magar-shack, himself the author of two good biographies of Chekhov and Turgenev...
...make a delivery date . . . Now I'll grant that building an atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry these policies out. Just who in hell do these physicists think they...
...same game, except at New Haven rather than Cambridge. What makes me wonder more and more is that so little has been changed. The classic words and tunes on Saturday were as refreshing as when first heard 50 years ago. And, still more remarkable, the enthusiasm and finer feeling of loyalty were still the same. Having gone to both universities I am puzzled why I did not decide which was better last week. By no means can I explain it. Yet I did understand how each band and each massed group of singers reciprocated with an alternating courtesy of silence...
Wilde is the third former Crimson oarsman who has returned to coach the lightweights. Last fall Rouner stepped in for Ted Reynolds who graduated from the Business School after one year of coaching. The season before that, Reynolds replaced the venerable Bert Haines, who taught the 150 pounders the finer art of catch and release for over 30 years...
...popularity, Naguib wanted power. He was President and Premier in name only; brilliant, selfless, young (36) Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real creator of the revolution, made all the big decisions, and he passed on to Naguib all the state papers, with notations on what to do. Naguib wanted a finer home, in keeping with his title; he insisted, when Egypt became a republic, on becoming Premier as well as President. He learned how to sulk and how to suffer diplomatic illnesses...