Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's Ferret and Le Corbusier. A prime example: Brazil's beehive-fronted Ministry of Education and Public Health in Rio de Janeiro, the work of a team of architects including Le Corbusier and his brilliant Brazilian disciple, Oscar Niemeyer. Historian Hitchcock calls it "still perhaps the finest single modern structure in Latin America...
Junior Ben Heckscher at one should prove more than equal to the Academy's Tom Lynch. Hockscher's combination of accurate corner shots and powerful drives rank him as the finest college player in the East...
Yeomen of the Guard is one of Sullivan's finest scores, certainly his most operatic, and it is performed all too seldom. The performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...
Bill Murray, in the individual medley, and Jim Stanley, in the butterfly, are "looking very good." Off the board, Brooks has Frank Gorman, "one of the best looking divers to enter Harvard, and one of the finest prospects in the country," according to Coach Charley Batterman...
...become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely one of our century's greatest draftsmen." Two paintings from Dr. Carillo's collection (opposite), now part of an exhibition touring Japan, show that though Orozco's fame rests primarily on his tempera murals, his talent...