Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide-covered tents for apartments in modern Ulan Bator (pop. 180,000) and four other 10,000-plus cities. Some...
...Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The two finest Greek poets of the 20th century, in evocative translations that capture each writer's cruel sense of the past and timeless sense of man's fate...
...Angeles, dyspeptic eaters bemoan the omission of La Scala, one of the finest Italian restaurants on the West Coast, and the Cock 'n Bull, whose Sunday hunt breakfast alone is worth a constellation. Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre...
...introduction. "They lay outside his range of vision and, had his attention been directed to them, they would have seemed to him devoid of any esthetic value." Half a century ago, the civilization of Sumer was scarcely known; more important, the vision of even Europe's finest artists was almost entirely bound by their own tradition. It has long been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer into the darkest crannies of history to see his art as a whole. This volume is the first of some 40 that Malraux and Georges Salles...
...Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei Androfski, leads the gallant last-ditch uprising out of the sewers and bunkers of Warsaw, but the only time he breaks down and weeps is over the death of his horse Batory, "the finest, the most beautiful and the most fierce animal in all of Poland...