Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childless young wife, but a fading movie queen, Ariadne de Lago (Geraldine Page). The ineffectual young man, Chance Wayne (Paul Newman), is a sexual athlete, but an impotent failure as the actor he wants to be. The has-been and the would-be smoke hashish ("Moroccan, and the finest") and saunter to the footlights to tell their sordid life stories in monologue...
...artistry of the renowned cellist, Madeline Foley and of David Gross, who is perhaps the finest undergraduate musician at Harvard, produced a concert Monday evening which was of the highest quality by any standards. Choosing three of the greatest sonatas in the cello and piano literature, Beethoven's Op. 5, No. 1, his Op. 102, and Brahms' Op. 99, they emphasized the intensity of emotion and spaciousness of these works. Their performance of the Brahms, in particular, revealed to the highest degree its nobility and magnificence...
...Haven's finest showed as much vigilance as Her Majesty's Royal Kenya Rifles when confronted with a jeering mob; and now President A. Whitney Griswold has placed the entire student body on probation. Although designed to conciliate righteous New Haven residents, such repression seems especially grave for spring disturbances. After all, the natives are bound to get restless now and then...
...committee would quickly extend its baleful influence. The Veritas Foundation, which considers that Harvard graduates at present are taught by a predominantly "leftist" faculty, would presumably try to correct this imbalance. Any such attempt would jeopardize the freedom this University has maintained for its faculty members--one of its finest features, and one that should not be encroached upon...
...donor, however, stated that his intent had been purposeful. "It is only the individual who styles himself as one of a 'cultural elite,'" he commented, who claims to be able to discriminate to the finest degree the 'good' from the 'bad' that can take offense. Here the scholar-as-collector reveals the fact that his financial and social interests in painting have surpassed his artistic...