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...honkies, hillbillies and the leading man's saddle buddy. The wide-ranging talent given expression only intermittently in those secondary roles is here used at full velocity and flat-out: he is funny and crazy, bitter, wistful and tragic. It is a performance that places him among the finest American film actors...
Harvard's lightweight crew-recognized as the finest in the school's history-will break all precedents in collegiate rowing Monday and Tuesday when it competes against the nation's best heavyweight crews in trials for the Pan American Games at Lake Onondaga...
...this group is the best of the lot. The long list of superlatives used to describe the lights has nearly been exhausted, but the fact remains that Gladstone has assembled one of the finest 150-pound crews ever...
...most of the faculty protested on the grounds that jazz had no place in an academic program. Worse, it would automatically bring marijuana to the campus. Today, the school has no more pot than many others. But it does have eight romping jazz bands and 200 of the finest young jazz players in the country. Times have changed, even if North Texas State still has to award an anachronistically entitled degree in "Dance Band" because of a certain residual hostility in high places. Says Director Leon Breeden: "That sounds better than 'jazz band' to some members...
...Only occasionally do we see the warmth, sensitivity, and compassion that move her. These scenes, when she breaks down and cries in fear to Keyes, when she talks of her boyfriends Regis, when she describes her unspeakable fear and horror when raped at gunpoint, are the finest in the novel...