Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collinge, as Ondine, provided some of the finest moments of the evening, but was also responsible for some of the deadest. And throughout she lacked the freshness and innocence demanded by the part. Ondine, at least at the beginning of her story, is virginity and purity, and even after her marriage she is almost chaste, Miss Collinge seemed far too wordly, too lusty, too self-assured...
Crimson swimmers finished 1-2 in six of nine of the individual races and took the 400 yard freestyle relay and the 400 yard medley relay. In perhaps the finest early season performance, Bill Chadsey, the team's number-one breaststroker, turned in a fine time of 2:20.1 for the 200 yard breaststroke...
Moments. But he also had his fine presidential moments-and to many the finest came in October 1962, when he set up a naval blockade that forced Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles that the Soviets had sneaked into Cuba. During that dramatic showdown, which both Kennedy and Khrushchev later said had brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, Kennedy said: "This secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles-in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and the nations of the Western Hemisphere-is a deliberately provocative and unjustified...
...telescope to rehearsal to catch his minuscule beat), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922, taught Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, directed the Pittsburgh and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before going to the fading Chicago Symphony in 1953, which he whipped into one of the world's finest ensembles, with a repertory that ran from Mozart to his countryman Kodaly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Last week, as he stepped down as president of the Southern Historical Association, Silver delivered a scathing attack on life in mid-20th century Mississippi. It was by all odds the finest engagement he has fought...