Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior guard Al Bornbeimer has played in the shadows of Harvard's "big men" for most of his varisty career. But last night he had his finest night ever, pumping in 10 of 16 shots--all of them from at least 20 feet...
...game, in its opening minutes, was as close as it had been billed. Harvard had difficulty penetrating the Engineers' zone defense, and Tech eked out a 7-5 lead. That was their finest hour; then Merle McClung took over. The towering center collected the Crimson's next 11 points, and propelled Harvard into an 18-11 advantage...
Painting in Gems. The Wittelsbach treasure represents some of the finest works of a moribund art in which precious stones, rather than paint, provided color, and malleable gold and silver, rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop...
...dark and dead. Mr. Docken and Miss Collinge were strong in their final despair and they occasionally exploited the rich humor of the text. The finest comic moments, however belonged to Michael Solomon, who as the judge of supernatural events is almost worth the price of the ticket. His timing is keen, his voice wonderfully flexible, and his facial expressions consistently alive and amusing. John Weiner has a brief but superbly played part...
Last week elegant crowds gathered once more beneath the Nationaltheater's grand portico for a night at the opera. A $20 million restoration project had converted the relic of one of Europe's finest opera houses into what is very likely the best opera house in the world, and in an opening festival that will not end until New Year's Eve, the general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger...