Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy most deeply the things we like, we must share them with others.'' Before he was killed in an automobile wreck in 1951, Barnes was already a legend for practicing exactly the opposite of what he preached. He owned a $100 million art collection, one of the finest in the world-and only a comparative handful of people ever...
...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...
...book published and become a bestseller in both Europe and the U.S. The hero is his own autocratic great-grandfather; in grave, glowing prose the story tells how Sicily's great landowners were brought low by revolution and their own stubborn resistance to change. Probably Italy's finest postwar novel...
...funny as Miss Delaney's play, and also takes a look at such human insanities as patriotism, the brink, and men who take themselves too seriously. High hopes are held for Brecht's Jungle of the Cities, which is opening now. Unfortunately, this is far from the poet's finest work, though New York seems ready for good Brecht. The Wall, by Millard Lampell, is a good reminder of the Nazi atrocities, but it is too reminiscent of Diary of Anne Frank in style and tone. Moreover, the hero is finally convinced of the necessity of resistance by a spirit...
...body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...