Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gretry's work lacks the exuberance and sparkle of the finest opera boufle tradition of that period, as exemplified, for example, in Cosi fan Tutti. Yet if Mozart is not advanced in comparison, Gretry's music must be adjudged an effective and delightful score. The characters are given subtle musical characterizations, there are some hilarious ensembles, and the coloratura has ample opportunity to show off her best...
...diversion in the court of Louis XV; however, as the only serious operatic presentation staged each year at Harvard, it seems to me an unfortunate waste of some excellent talent and much very hard work. Much great but neglected music remains to be brought to light; some of the finest contemporary scores are in operatic form; these considerations might guide Lowell House's choice in the future...
...Sears urges that 'the Law School. . . retain the position it has established over the year.' We sincerely hope that the Law School will be true to its traditions which found its finest expressions in Dean Roscoe Pound's criticism of the Palmer Raids of the 1920's, Justice Frankfurter's dissent of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Professor Chafee's participation in the great free speech controversies...
From his earliest days at the Hill School, Widener began collecting books; when he entered Harvard in 1903 he already had a good start to his Robert Louis Stevenson collection, now considered one of the finest in the country. Stevenson was his favorite author and Treasure Island his favorite book. He once told a friend that he never traveled without a copy of Treasure Island and knew it by heart...
Dylan Marlais Thomas, 38, is a chubby, bulb-nosed little Welshman with green eyes, a generally untidy air, and the finest lyrical talent of any poet under 40. When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a wild Welsh dithyramb in which truth and fact become hopelessly smothered in boozy invention. He borrows with no thought of returning what is lent, seldom shows up on time, is a trial to his friends and a worry to his family. But let him sit down...