Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward the mainland, north of Athens, are the Northern Sporades and the delightful island of Skiathos. Its beach, Koukounaries, is one of the finest in the Aegean, and the sand, laced with mica, glitters like silver. Skiathos is a playground for the sturdy loner who is happy with rucksack and sleeping bag. Although the islanders are conservative enough to be repelled by the sight of women in shorts or slacks, they are also warm and carefree. One night recently, two American women who had bedded down in sleeping bags in a park, woke suddenly to find the young...
...doing exactly as he wants. "As usual," he will say when asked. "I am painting people." His people may be famous or obscure, and may end up anywhere from the wall of a museum to the cover of TIME, but his work sets him apart as one of the finest veteran portraitists going. One of his best portraits made news last week when Amherst College announced that it had bought for its permanent collection his 1929 painting of Poet Robert Frost...
Four years ago, Brown bought 39 acres of land from the city for a magnificent new athletic plant--the property, one of the finest pieces of real estate available in the city for many years--was desired and fought for by every major Providence realtor, yet was sold to the tax-exempt educational institution...
...Cool: the Gil Evans Orchestra (Impulse). The finest arranger in jazz puts some of his melodic and rhythmic tricks on display in five selections, including his own long (15-min.) La Nevada, and his arrangement of John Brooks's haunting Where Flamingos Fly. The moods vary, but the effect is always an intricate crosscurrent of sound stirring to restlessly shifting rhythms...
...most critics, Italian-born Rico Lebrun, 60, ranks today not only as the West Coast's most formidable talent, but one of the finest of those painters who work in the tradition of Goya. Syracuse University recently acquired his huge triptych on the Crucifixion; Pomona College has his majestic Genesis mural, completed early this year; the University of California Press has just published a handsome book of his drawings. At first glance, all this might seem to be the work of a bitter and sick imagination; but the man himself is exactly the opposite. "People think...