Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once-and poorly -over a decade ago at The Deutsche Oper in West Berlin. Among those in the audience, however, was Caldwell, and ever since she has been patiently trying to get the money together to stage the opera in Boston. Montezuma is indisputably twelve-tone music's finest hour on the operatic stage. Whether it finds its way into the standard repertory or, like Berg's Wozzeck (which it rivals), stays on the fringes, is something only the years can determine. For now it is enough that Montezuma is a work that imbues the mind with searing...
...foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...
Bradlee's elation is understandable, and not just because very few people get to see glorifications of themselves by one of America's finest actors. All the President's Men had every prospect of failing big. Since work began on it three years ago, it has been, as its screenwriter of record, William Goldman, says, "the biggest gossip picture since The Godfather." There was hazard, if not a touch of hubris, in turning a national trauma into a mere movie?and so quickly too. The film would be released before the nation's emotions had dried into something like...
Charles Thompson calls the Busch-Reisinger Museum one of the finest teaching museums in German art and culture outside of central Europe. Under endowed, the museum typifies many of the financial woes that are facing the University's museums, most of which have small endowments and no means of generating income. Individuals and corporations in Switzerland. Germany and Austria are being approached with the pitch that the Museum provides a window to the culture...
...University's real estate holdings, though not administered by the Development Office, are still an important source of alumni gifts that currently offer substantial financial benefits to Harvard. Sail Fish Point, Fla., a 775-acre tract in some of the finest undeveloped land along the Florida coast, is typical of Harvard's bizarre but rich holdings. The land, which also includes a 6600 foot beach front, is currently under negotiation for sale that could go as high as $10 million. In addition, the University is the full beneficiary of a 900 acre onion farm in Mansfield, Ohio...