Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glimpse of a busy American sea captain nonchalantly ignoring an aged stevedore who has collapsed under his burden. During the voyage, the faces of crew members reveal their contempt for the immigrants. The brunt of the social criticism loses its bite, however, when put beside a hero whose noblest image of America seems to be a towering dollar sign...
...Your anniversary issue must stand as the noblest product of your 40 years. The Lincoln cover and the Lincoln essay stir me in my soul. What is written stands like rock. It is a great piece of literature. It is all of history. Those who put it together deserve the highest accolade...
Faithe and utopias are the noblest exercise of human reason, and no one with a spark of reason in him will sit down fatalistically before the croaker's picture...
Conway said that in Harvard's "reconcilement" of aristocracy and democracy was "the best expression of the noblest side of the American dream." He said the synthesis of the two is "related to all of the country and essential for an understanding...
Lips That Fail. Most of the men are well over 60, and all are traditional players of the New Orleans style-a rick-a-tick-tick, free-moving jazz form that is the noblest ancestor of Dixieland. The oldest regular is Papa John Joseph, 85, who still plays a mean bass and is a veteran of the old Kid Ory and King Oliver Creole jazz bands. Papa plays in the company of such old regulars as Trumpeter Punch Miller, 68, and Clarinetist George Lewis, 62. Lewis is among the few jazz pioneers still living. The clarinet on which he composed...