Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputation is the plaster Zeus of Weimar who thundered at secretaries and toadied to princes ("Blessed are those who draw near to the great of this world!"). Of his works, only Faust is famous, largely because Charles Gounod made grand opera of it, and only a few of his finest lyrics have survived the assaults of 19th century translation...
With all the teaching hospitals in Boston closely affiliated, the Harvard Health Services cannot help but have the finest in medical facilities at its command. But it has even begun to acquire outstanding and unusual equipment of its own. Just this spring a member of the Class of 1915 presented the UHS with a "Pacemaker," the newest and most effective device for diagnosing and treating disorders of the heart. Used to monitor the hearts of people suspected to have heart disease and to provide emergency resuscitation, the Pacemaker will permit the treatment of serious emergencies right in Stillman Infirmary...
...this book," says the new King Korn Stamp Co.'s catalogue, "you will find a wide selection of the finest gifts from America's leading manufacturers." For example, 5 3/5 books of stamps will fetch you a Gooney-Cycle unicycle, five books, a Kidee Krome table and chair set. And for just 1,975 books you may have, from one of America's leading manufacturers indeed, Rice Threshing by Thomas Hart Benton, 76. Did putting his work up for stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around...
...Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent a lifetime inventing and exploiting her own legend, and has remained largely a legend since her death in 1924. Now Louise Hall Tharp, whose last book was The Baroness and the General, has written the most extensive and carefully documented biography of this thoroughly improper Bostonian...
...World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours he has passed between wind and water -a day in 1961 when everything went right, a day in 1956 when everything went wrong, a long warm summer's sail among the shining isles of Greece. Much of his time is spent making crusty pronouncements from the poop...