Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent in jail, continuing there to plot, teach and organize (Tito was one of his pupils). Mosa Pijade was on Tito's military staff in the struggle against Hitler, was elected a Politburo member last year, and is considered to be Yugoslav Communism's finest orator...
...sternly suppressed her own personality, she everywhere gives proof of her very personal taste and wit: with a resolute aristocracy of method, she is as much above her characters as she is outside them. If her finest talent is for social comedy, her particular genius is for suggesting a stageful of people, a whole social scene...
...chartered a plane and crashed in East Africa, the news would probably make the bottom of the front pages of the New York Times and Herald Tribune and pass almost unnoticed in the rest of the nation's press. Yet he is easily one of the two or three finest Jiving American writers and certainly one of the handful of truly great writers this country has produced...
...first is simply that it is a collection of E. B. White; and that is virtue enough for any book. It is not so superb a book as some of his others--that would be too much to ask. One Man's Meat, after all, is probably the finest volume of essays in American literature...
...partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...