Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's leave from Lawrenceville to study for an M.A. at Princeton in French literature. In a one-act play by Merimee, he found the germ of an idea for another book. One day he sat down and wrote: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." Thus began The Bridge of San Luis...
STILL, Benny was far from satisfied. He had made friends O with one of the world's finest classical clarinet players, Reginald Kell, and in 1949 he began taking lessons from...
...Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve it any style, with any of 96 sauces...
...with the completion of his famous David, Michelangelo was clearly the first sculptor of Italy; by 33 he was acclaimed the equal of Phidias. But he had also begun to learn the inconstancy of patrons. Pope Julius II commissioned the artist to make him the finest tomb in history, then abruptly lost all interest in the project. Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled. The Pope then put Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time...
...urbane history of some 17th century French Ursuline nuns who were possessed by The Devils of London. Rome and a Villa, an intellectual love affair that Author Eleanor Clark carried on with the Eternal City, made better reading than all the year's travel books put together. The finest picture book of the year was Henri Carder-Bresson's book of magnificent photographs, The Decisive Moment...