Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coverage of the train of events that began in Dallas, the television industry fulfilled what was widely regarded as its finest and most responsible role. Not until the Tuesday after the assassination did the three major TV networks return to normal programing, having devoted some 200 uninterrupted hours to the running story. Even by the most conservative estimate, the cost was impressive-and irretrievable: $4,000,000 each for CBS and NBC, about...
Puccini: Tosca (RCA Victor). With Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei, Conductor Herbert von Karajan has the finest Tosca cast that can be assembled today. Price surpasses Callas as the reigning Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia...
Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross (Columbia) present Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk and his quartet in the finest of fettle, reconsidering works from his collection of private standards. (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning, Monk's Dream) in performances that prove the immense vitality of his Monkish imagination...
Shaped by discipline, such boldness might have made a classic indictment of war. Instead, Foreman has spent two and a half years producing a faintly vulgar medley nearly three hours long. Even the film's finest scene is marred by excess: as a pathetically boyish American deserter is led before a firing squad in a vast snowy field, the sound track erupts with Frank Sinatra's dulcet warbling of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, followed by Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. The choice seems arbitrary, a victory cheaply won. Or does an audience really have...
Harvard is a university which respects tradition, and Harvard basketball teams during the past half-century have sedulously lived up to a tradition of badness. The team has had five winning seasons in the last 25 years. In Ivy League competition, the Crimson's finest performance in history came in 1906, when the squad compiled a 6-4 record to finish in undisputed possession of third place...