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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Violinists | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Though at first glance it tends to perplex, it quickly engages scrutiny, and you are left with a feeling of unrestrained respect for the artist. No question, this is your finest cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue with the old prices marked up." Indiana's G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart described it as "more inconsistent than any message I have listened to in my eighteen years in the U.S. Senate." And new House Ma jority Leader Carl Albert called it "the finest State of the Union message I've heard since I became a member of Congress [15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Excess of Moderation? | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Since it appeared in 1924, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India has come to be recognized as one of the finest novels of the century. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results . Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting...

Author: By Joseph L. Fratherstone, | Title: A Passage to India | 1/15/1962 | See Source »

...Leopoldo Pirelli, 36, third generation of his family to run the huge (1961 sales: $220 million) Pirelli rubber company: "There's more perspiration than is normally involved in a miracle." The secret lies far closer to hand, in industrial imagination, high skills, hard work, aggressive ambition. Perhaps the finest result of the North Italy boom is the fact that, after the long years of Fascism and the humiliation of military defeat. Italy's national self-respect has been restored and is increasing by the works of its own people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Booming North: Land of Autocratic, Energetic Business Giants | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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