Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...
...books are published in exotic Slavic languages. The inestimable William Dean Howells boldly commented: "To explain what Bohemian meant, or what Bohemia was... no one can quite do." And the New York Times cautioned its readers in 1858 that Bohemians are "seductive in their ways, and they hold the finest sentiments. The Bohemian cannot be called a useful member of society." Throughout history, people have seemed reluctant to explain the phenomenon of the Bohemian...
...hurry a recording session than he would a Beethoven tempo-and each new disk was an event. The whole series ranked as a masterpiece. Schnabel died in 1951, and his old 78 r.p.m. records soon became obsolete in the LP age. Last week Victor brought him back in his finest reincarnation, a package containing all 32 sonatas on 13 LPs, plus Schnabel's own meticulous edition of the piano scores. It is an extraordinary fusion of free-swinging artistry and absolute faithfulness to Beethoven's intentions, written or implied...
Just as Mrs. Dodds was about to give birth, Boswell met the very heiress he was looking for-Miss Catherine Blair, "the finest woman I have ever seen." Overjoyed, Bozzy rushed off to drink Miss Blair's health, got very tight and passed the night with "a whore worthy of Boswell if Boswell must have a whore." As "a just retribution for my licentiousness," he "got a disease from which I suffer severely...
...down Hanover Street through little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that you cross the river, pass the navy yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston anymore.Manye of ye finest citizens are buryed in Boston's downtowne burial ground, the Old Granary Occasionally Paul Revere and all are visited by pedestrians when the shortest line between two points is the diagonal across the graveyard...