Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Underlying Chaucer's sturdy, balanced genius, Gardner sees a characteristically medieval conviction that the world made sense. Chaucer viewed man as a "responsible, moral agent in a baffling but orderly universe." Yet his finest work was full of ironical laughter; a "canterbury tale," in medieval slang...
...stay away until you grow older. The scenery of Alaska is so much grander than anything else of the kind in the world that, once beheld, all other scenery becomes flat and insipid. It is not well to dull one's capacity for such enjoyment by seeing the finest first...
Erving, Simpson and Morgan are the finest athletes in their sports, men of huge physical gifts, with great dedication to the honing of their arts and remarkable mental and emotional resiliency under pressure. They have much in common, most obviously that they are black. As superstars nonpareil, they are both inheritors and exemplars-the legatees of black athletes whose greatness moldered in Jim Crow obscurity, and the new idols of American sports culture...
Television star Chevy Chase said last night at the Law School Forum that it was a "quadruple joy" to be invited to speak to "post-grads at the second finest educational institution in the state...
...plays an actress who is always on and the director of the matrimonial musical chairs, has life, presence and a wardrobe of elegant costumes. She can also sing--not as stunningly, perhaps, as one might wish, but well enough to convey the poignant irony of the show's finest song, "Send in the Clowns." In her case, a stronger directorial hand would surely have added luster to an already adequate performance...