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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...GINE CRESPIN (Angel). Soprano Crespin has the distinction of being both the finest operatic voice of France and one of opera's leading Wagnerians. Here she sings arias from Tannhüiuser together with Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, Rossini's William Tell and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, and seems equally at home in all four styles and all three languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Brown's captain Dave Farley finished fourth, just eight seconds ahead of Harvard's caption ED Meehan, running perhaps his finest race of the season. Junior Bill Crain was the second Crimson runner to finish, coming in ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Capture Fourth; Cornell Takes Heptagonal Crown | 11/9/1963 | See Source »

...baritone William Parker reduced to complete silence the usual rattlings and coughings of a Sanders audience. The chorus, which by then had warmed up and had warmed its audience to it, continued the delicate clarity with which Paker had begun; conductor Walter Noliner made the song Princeton's finest instant...

Author: By Joel E. Collen, | Title: Harvard, Princeton Glee Clubs | 11/9/1963 | See Source »

Elegance & Splendor. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts could illustrate many of these theses from its superb collection of some 2,000 costumes, one of the finest in the world. It was assembled during the past 80-odd years by a number of donors, but the best of the clothes were given by a dedicated spinster, the late Elizabeth Day McCormick of Chicago (granddaughter of Reaper Tycoon Cyrus McCormick), who ranged Europe and the U.S., skimping on taxis and her own clothes, to buy a total of some 20,000 costumes, pieces of embroidery, books and prints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Gilding the Lily | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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