Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geologists & Giselle. Oklahoma is not yet a first-rate university, but it has come a long way since its founding in 1890. O.U. ranks among the top ten state schools in Rhodes scholars. Its 1,000,000-volume Bizzell Memorial Library houses the world's finest collection of materials on the history of science. Its petroleum-science program-backed by gifts from the state's oil industry-has produced one-fourth of the nation's geologists and petrochemical engineers. Although best known for its strength in science, O.U. has one of the nation's few campus...
...next time Sione played was at Harvard's first practice last year, where he ran barefoot over the Crimson's finest scrummers. He started the first game -- after his teammates persuaded him to wear spikes to prevent injury -- and has been a starter ever since. "I still haven't gotten used to shoes," Sione says. "They slow me down -- and I can't drop kick as well with them...
...technical virtuosity and the intensity of her later work. More intriguing than the poems are the essays which accompany them. Elizabeth Aldrich's analysis of "The Eye-Mote" (which appeared in Miss Plath's first volume, The Collossus) takes the poem apart and puts it back together in the finest style of New Criticism and, incidentally, gives a reasonably good perspective on Sylvia Plath's over-all artistic ambitions. In "The Documentary Sublime" Stuart Davis offers a total assessment of her intentions and accomplishments, presenting a critical outlook which might easily be extended to all modern poetry. Although the essay...
After the freshman lacrosse team over-whelmed Yale, 14-4, for its sixth straight win and eighth of the season against only one loss, beer and champagne followed in abundance at Dillon Field House. The Yardling stickmen had reason to celebrate. They were, according to Coach Jim Lentz, the "finest freshman lacrosse team I've had in my ten years at Harvard...
...Rudolf Nureyev proclaimed, Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week was "a ballet supermarket," and balletomanes dashed eagerly from aisle to aisle to sample the best offerings. At the New York State Theater, the American Ballet Theater opened a month-long stand featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers...