Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band's Dartmouth Concert is one of the best reasons I can think of for having a Dartmouth week-end. And this year's performance was perhaps the finest in recent years. After three years of constant prodding by director James A. Walker, the band is beginning to assert itself as a musical group of some stature...
Long Day's Journey into Night. The greatest and most personal of Eugene O'Neill's plays has been respectfully translated by Director Sidney Lumet and a capable cast (Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) into one of the year's finest films: a fearsome examination of the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love...
Last year, when the Ev and Charlie Show was going great guns and Sen. Barry Goldwater admitted that some of the finest men in Phoenix were card-carrying John Birchers, a group of Young Republicans at Harvard burned some elderly elephant ears with the publication of a new magazine, called Advance. Working out of the notorious third floor of Quincy House (Cambridge's perpetual smoke-filled room) these "progressive Republicans" took enough well-aimed pot shots at the entrenched G.O.P. leadership to win them widespread praise, especially from beleaguered liberals in their own party...
...collector responsible for it is a Manhattanite named John M. Crawford Jr., who has been using his ample inheritance from a West Virginia manufacturer of oil-drilling equipment to build the finest collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy in private Western hands since that of the famed Charles Freer...
This pursuit of perfection, transferred to aircraft engines, gave Rolls its finest hour. In the Battle of Britain, Rolls-Royce's Merlin engine helped give the R.A.F.'s Spitfires and Hurricanes the edge over the Luftwaffe. And on the strength of its World War II experience in building the first Allied jet engines, Rolls decided to stake its postwar future primarily on jet aircraft. Today, 56% of all commercial jet planes in the free world are powered by Rolls-Royce engines. Nearly 80% of the company's sales-and, in all probability, nearly 100% of its profits...