Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the finest small man in the game is beginning to worry. Boston's great Bob Cousy (6 ft. 1 in., 176 lbs.) sees little point in raising the basket to offset sheer height ("Why penalize someone just because he's 7 ft. tall?"), is more interested in the proposal to zone the floor: one point for successful shots within 6 ft. of the basket; two points for shots from 6 to 25 ft.; three points for shots from farther...
Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism. The central figure is dying of cancer; his final months lead through the discovery of goodness to one of the crudest pieces of sustained misanthropy the screen has ever shown...
...beet-red face and grey hair plastered to his head, Boland resembles a jovial Irish publican, but the scholarly, Dublin-born diplomat finds as much relaxation in reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly job also calls...
Goodnight. All of Alfred agreed, and especially 18-year-old Dorothy Lebohner, who first began cheering Alfred's finest athlete when she was a local high school student. But Dorothy never spoke to Warren until last summer, when both were waiting on tables at summer school. Hesitantly, Warren asked her to the movies; she refused. He persisted, and finally last fall, when Dorothy became an Alfred freshman, she agreed-if another girl went along. After many Coke-and-walk dates, they kissed goodnight. "He's such a gentleman," she said. "And he knew the vast difference between...
Ikiru (Toho; Thomas J. Brandon), made in 1952 but only recently pried out of a Tokyo film vault by an enterprising U.S. distributor, has long been acclaimed by film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...