Word: finer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LEGACY of Peter Sellers '80 has bequeathed to Harvard a finer appreciation than before of theatrical innovation. During Sellars' four years here, the community witnessed productions that reached to the outer limits of interpretation and experimentation. Now a talent the greater theater world need reckon with, Sellars clearly knew what he was doing, and he rarely came up without pearls. Unfortunately, his example also marked student theater with a mad and often careless pursuit of creative spontaneity, an excessive emphasis on the experimental side of drama, that now plagues and even stems its creativity...
...Princeton was the only hurdle for us," Coach Dave Fish said. "Now we're progressing faster than ever, improving the finer points of our game...
Even rival American physicists were impressed. At Fermilab, the big U.S. accelerator center outside Chicago, Chris Quigg whimsically conceded, "They walk like Ws and talk like Ws." Rubbia was both ebullient and philosophical. Noting that scientists have been chopping matter into ever finer pieces since the time of the Greeks, he said, "We may not yet be at the end of the ladder...
...ended no wars, cured no diseases, with her husband she reigned over a piece of land which, if truth be told, needed no rulers. Hers was the greatness of beauty, of the finer things in life. She represented not an effort to fill humanity's basic needs, but instead, like a fine painting or symphony, she represented the possibilities of life once those basic needs have been met. When she died, the world was saddened, and in the little principality of Monaco the casino stopped running, shops closed down and the people mourned the passing of their princess...
...sequel volume, the former deputy chief of the British general staff describes in finer detail the events that follow the fatal decision of the Soviet Union, powerful militarily but shaky in its economy and unsure of Poland and its own Asian provinces, that the moment has come to attack what it assumes to be a soft and irresolute NATO alliance. When their mighty armored thrusts into West Germany fail-just barely-to overwhelm NATO, the Soviets gamble that a nuclear attack will throw the West into panic, and they vaporize Birmingham, England. Twenty-five minutes later the Allies detonate four...