Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place for young U.S. architects to drink at the source of McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
...Rarely have All-America selectors agreed so unanimously on the nation's finest college basketball players. The four solid choices: Cincinnati's record-scoring Oscar Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 lbs.), West Virginia's driving, versatile Jerry West (6 ft. 3 in., 175 lbs.), Ohio State's precocious sophomore Jerry Lucas (6 ft. 7½ in., 228 lbs.), and California's defensive star Darrall Imhoff (6 ft. 10 in., 210 lbs.). Top alternates for the fifth position: St. John's brilliant but erratic Tony Jackson; St. Bonaventure's high-scoring Tom Stith...
...Metropolitan Opera audiences as the gold curtain itself: arms flung wide, massive head tilted to the galleries, the barrel-chested man with the thin legs would stand at the conclusion of a great Verdi aria, waiting with a lordly air for the homage due the world's finest dramatic baritone...
Together, these players form a unit unique in the history of film: a cinema stock company trained by one director and dedicated to his purposes, beyond question the finest collection of cinemactors assembled under one roof. Among the principals: Gunnar Björnstrand, a skinny, thin-lipped, cold-eyed man who portrays the intellectual icicles Bergman loves to dissolve; Eva Dahlbeck, a bright-eyed, matronly blonde who is far and away the finest comedienne in the troupe; Max von Sydow, a tall, gaunt, rugged actor who generally personifies Bergman's spiritual search and sufferings; Harriet Andersson, a full-lipped...
Ikiru (Japanese). A hard-eyed, nail-by-nail examination of a common man's Calvary, and perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, Japan's most gifted moviemaker...