Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer condolences? To millions the world over, Stevenson represented the finer breed of American and proved that the best man need not always win at politics...
...outmatch Europe's best. Europe, for example, has no stretch of shore that surpasses Cape Cod's Great Outer Beach with its soaring bluffs; no mountain lakes that are more breathtaking than those in Colorado or Wyoming; no more challenging golf courses than Pebble Beach and Pine Valley; no finer sailing than Cape Cod or the Maine Coast. Moreover, all the food is American, and all the natives speak English...
...admired and appreciated. However, as a wife, mother and registered nurse, I find the vision of a pair of breasts bouncing over a cocktail tray outrageous to my sense of "public decency." The human body should not appear publicly out of context with the values classified roughly as "the finer things of life," including mature adult love, fine art and music...
...dear," said her friend, "there is no finer piano tuner in the world then Mr. Opernoketty. His telephone number is EL 4-5150." Mrs. Worthington called him directly and, despite his astronomic fee, arranged an appointment...
...Connection, and splashing a dramatic canvas with jesting surrealistic damnation in The Apple, Playwright Jack Gelber now fires a stream of satirical tracer bullets into contemporary marriage, careerism, the worshipful cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and the costly cosmeticians of the death industry. Though his mind is finer than his means, Gelber is an intellectual twister and swinger with a phantasmagorial sense of the present...