Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...
...shadow, leading an orchestra that seemed to be looking the other way. At last he went home to England to take over Manchester's Halle Orchestra, which he doggedly rebuilt from a draft-drained band of 23 to one of Britain's finest ensembles. In 1959, he returned to New York and won a thunderous sentimental welcome; the next year he announced he was pushing off for Texas. "Barbirolli belongs to a world of music which knows no barrier of language, color or creed," wrote an enthusiastic English critic. "He is destined to wander it till...
...John's touch has made Houston the finest orchestra in the Southwest-and, more important, a better one than Dallas. With the patronage of Houston's cultural leader, Miss Ima Hogg, 81, and a $700,000 annual budget, it plays a regular concert season embellished with "dollar night" concerts for as many as 25,000 in the Sam Houston Coliseum. This year, it will even venture east for a concert tour of 20 cities, grandly climaxed in March with a New York performance in Philharmonic Hall-the first such coup by any Southwestern orchestra...
Fortunately, Harvard is now in the best shape it has been in all year. Captain Ed Meshan is still bothered by sore Achilles' tendons, but his record-breaking performance against Dartmouth last Friday was his finest of the season. If Walt Hewiett finishes first, as expected, a one-two Harvard sweep may be in the offing...
Even so, the Symphony provided some of the finest moments in years at the Dartmouth Concert and gave promise of a better future...