Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World learning. His immensely successful lectures at Oxford and Edinburgh, perhaps more than anything else, demonstrated that America had come of age intellectually. Europe and America, the sciences and the humanities, nineteenth century and twentieth century--in James they all blend, in James they seem to find their finest mediator...
...second of themes the magazine treats--the position of Catholics in general--is handled best by Joel Porte in "A Jew Speaks to Harvard Catholics," easily the finest article in the issue. Porte begins by explaining how the Jew, also part of an ancient, historically formidable religion, can sympathize with the Catholic. But he goes on to note a possible "secret source of friction between Catholics and Jews," namely the Catholic bitterness at unbelieving Jews like Freud, Marx, and Einstein, who have fashioned so much of the modern world. His challenge to this alienated Catholic is eloquent: "After almost...
...Thanks to Miss McNamara," Professor Isaacs said, "the Harvard Graduate School of Design boasts the finest and largest collection of city and regional planning and landscape architecture materials in the world...
...houses, horses and barns its floods destroyed by winter. Today, more than two-thirds of its 900-mile length is virtually one tamed and tranquil lake. Hundreds of recreation sites occupy the valley's 10,000 miles of shoreline. Its waters provide one of the world's finest inland recreation areas, yield fishermen some 10,000,000 Ibs. a year of 23 species of fish...
...Master's choice of wives. "It's been great fun," Mrs. Perkins says of her twenty-three years in the House, "and in many ways I am extremely sad about leaving." When Master Perkins retires from Lowell at the end of this term, he will take with him the finest priestess a personality cult ever boasted...