Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berenson, the greatest living authority on Italian art, has the finest collection of Italian renaissance paintings still in private hands. His Villa I Tatti, located a few miles outside Florence, also contains a scholar's library virtually complete in his field, and a collection of photographs unique in the world...
...Powell Septet (Vanguard LP). A classical label gives jazz the hi-fi treatment, with first-rate results. Seven top jazzmen play as if for themselves, turn out some of today's finest group improvisations. Notable for a long (7 min.), brooding I Must Have That Man, featuring Buck Clayton's trumpet...
Flaubert's best friends tried to dissuade him. Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev reminded him that Voltaire had dashed off Candide, the finest satire in French letters, in just three days; he warned Flaubert to work fast or not at all. But Flaubert plodded along at his own schedule, poring through some 1,500 volumes as research. After eight years, not quite finished with his story but with the end clearly indicated, Flaubert died. Now, for the first time, the English-reading public can judge for itself whether Flaubert or Turgenev was right...
...week General Electric announced that two of its scientists, Dr. Robert L. Fullman and Arno Gatti, have created a slender crystal of iron that is nearly as strong as it should be in theory. The G.E. crystal is only 1/1000 of an inch in diameter (the diameter of the finest human hair is about 1/1500 of an inch), but careful tests have proved it astoundingly strong. If its cross section were one square inch, it could hold up a weight of almost 1,000,000 pounds...
Among a field of heroes, Jesse Richard Barnet ranks the highest for producing the finest set of lyrics and the liveliest score to hit Boston this season--barring only Guys and Dolls. To any local theatre goer, inured to the relative inferiority of non-professional musicals, Barnet's work is just amazing. It is seriously the equal of all but the apex in professional writing, and it is steady in its near perfection. Not one of the songs in the show is less than very good, and several are magnificent. "All About Love," "A Word With You," and "Incognito" inspire...