Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, in his clarity of comprehension and expression and his ability to direct himself squarely to the kernel of his tale, Sourian shows his very considerable talent. "Miri" is a first novel which excites hopes of much finer things to come with the broadening of the author's experience...
...program opened with Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, which conductor Michael Senturia kept at once precise and full-blooded, with especially rich, driving tone from the cellos. It was too bad the original idea of using recorders fell through, but no one could have wished for finer flute playing than that of Cynthia Crain and Fritz Kraber. Ruth Miller was mostly successful with the fiendishly difficult solo violin part, and the performance as a whole came within only a few slips in intonation of being masterful...
...Congratulations on naming the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Since the embattled American farmers stood at Concord in 1775, there has been no greater and finer and braver blow struck for human liberty and freedom than that by these modern sons of Thaddeus Kosciusko...
...Saturday since the resort season ended; the busy, year-round Nevele Hotel & Country Club alone deposited $102,-ooo. A wooden booth went up in the town square with the placard: "We're behind you, Bill," and 3.000 residents lined up to sign a petition: "Ellenville is a finer place to live because of his unselfish leadership." Business leaders sent Rose a letter reaffirming the "unique regard we hold...
...Frost, Edwin Muir, and T.S. Eliot, however, have been both informative and encouraging. If the University would establish more visiting lectureships for artists as opposed to scholars, students would benefit from the different point of view, if only as a contrast with that of the scholar. Besides a possibly finer sensitivity to human problems which the mature artist attains through the creative experience, he offers the student a conception of the pertinence of art as well as of the possibility of using knowledge creatively and not merely passively. If such men as Aaron Copland, W. H. Auden, William Faulkner...