Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French poet Baudelaire should be chosen as the patron Satan of college students vacationing in Florida [TIME, April 13]. His words, "Be drunken always . . . nothing else matters," could be incorporated into a fine party song, and the beaches and motels of Fort Lauderdale would have little trouble passing for the streets and houses of Paris that he so vividly described...
...remarkable thing that you have done in publishing some of the rare, fine Byzantine iconography in your April 13 issue, together with your story on the expedition to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine. No detraction of appreciation is intended of your fine color plates by pointing out that your descriptions were purely secular...
...repose the old question: What is truth? Fine. That is what good journalism is all about-the pursuit of truth. But a less elusive and more pertinent question might be: What is news? For some reporters, news can be simply what the government spokesman proclaims it to be in a given country, on a given question, or what the official press release says it is. For many this is not enough...
Moreover, there is no tutorial; and want of focus can bring out the worst in a Wellesley education--a fine background, but no individual discipline worth attaching it to. Now this is a problem of most women's education--not just for oft-maligned Wellesley. Yet it seems more pressing for this college: for with its wealth of material: classes with a high average on the SATs, a low faculty-student ratio and a good endowment--it is geared to turn out enlightened, intelligent, and placid students. The waste provokes the maligning...
...ensemble of two pianos and 'cello is vigorously conducted by Daniel Larner, who made the intelligent abridgement of the opera. Xerxes has pretty costumes and sets as well, and Peter Brown's staging is appropriately mock-serious. A trip to Agassiz is unquestionably worthwhile, if only to hear fine music which will probably remain unperformed again until the next Handel year...