Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marveled Conductor Antal Dorati. "What spirit! They're better than ever!" He sounded like a man who had just seen a corpse walking-as indeed he had. Ten months ago, the Philharmonia, considered by many to be London's finest orchestra, had been formally dissolved by its founder-owner, Impresario Walter Legge (TIME, April 17). Nonetheless, the orchestra struggled back to life, gave its official comeback concert under Otto Klemperer in October. Since then, the New Philharmonia, as it is now called, has shown that it is as robustly alive and kicking -if Leggeless-as at any time...
...jeweler apparently helping the police-picked up Detective Maline and drove him to a luncheonette. They parked and got out of the car. When they returned, they found a key in the car, with a note directing Maline to the Trailways bus station and locker 0911. Then, in the finest traditions of cloak-and-dagger-manship, the driver reportedly stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed...
Efficient Cost. Special-effects men are having their finest hour. The top of the Tower of Babel was shot in Egypt, where 4,000 sun-baked Egyptians were hired to play Babylonian extras. One day only 1,500 arrived for work, so armadas of taxicabs had to be sent out through the streets of Cairo to pick up anything that moved on two feet. The bottom of Babel's tower was shot near Rome, where one genius in the makeup department ran around with cans of something called Clean Fly, which he sprayed on pale Italians to turn them...
Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
...current publishers realize, Call It Sleep's history is its finest selling point. To those who equate failure with artistic integrity, three decades of neglect suggests more than ordinary merit. And for culture-snob and intellectual alike, the book's underground reputation has immense appeal. A friend recommended the novel to me, but I probably wouldn't have read it if he hadn't added that it first appeared in 1934 and sold only 4,000 copies, that Henry Roth has written almost nothing since then, that he now raises chickens on a farm in Maine. And I've found...