Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maugham." But after two novels flopped in Britain, he decided he was better suited to poetry, confessing later: "It's like moving to a much smaller house after finding you cannot afford to keep up the mansion of your dreams." Larkin has become one of England's finest poets, but he may have deserted his mansion too soon. The second novel, A Girl in Winter, has now been published in the U.S.; and while it is no sumptuous Versailles of literature, it is an elegant chateau that any writer could be proud...
...Marion's fencers enter Ivy competition today against the League's finest--Columbia. The Crimson has a 4-2 record, but Columbia has a good deal of class and should emerge victorious. The match begins at 2 p.m. in the I.A.B...
Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles announced his resignation during the Fall. Bolles had built the Harvard athletic program into one of the Ivy League's finest during his 13 years as director, and had been instrumental in establishing the Ivy League as a competitive conference. A wide-spread search was conducted for his successor, and informed sources indicate the list of candidates has now been narrowed. An appointment should be made by March...
...great year in Harvard sports, but it was excellent, and more than a few thrills were experienced by local fans. In our judgment, the swimming team's one point victory over Yale was the highlight of the athletic year, and perhaps the finest performance by a Harvard team of any variety in several years...
...took a long, cool look at conducting," he says Of course I liked the power and prestige being a conductor- but did I really have anything to say?" After deciding that he did, he began to build his new career, using as touchstones his La Scala debut (". . . the finest since Toscanini, icy told me . . .") and his debut at Bayreuth the Teutonic holy of holies. I was the first American and the young est man ever to appear there," Maazel says, and it was beautiful." Soon he was second only to Herbert von Karajan as Europe's darling. And having...