Word: empyrean
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...will take a fairly "posh" word-fancier to pay $47.50 for the economy edition. Prices for buckram and India paper scrape the empyrean. Once, the Webster's Unabridged had the advantage of cheapness over the O.E.D., but now it can vaunt nothing but its relative portability...
...Cole's instruments in his tussle with the fates. The Bishop expresses a worldly skepticism; the Merchant an enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty in spots it could never hold an audience past the first couple...
Concludes America: "In all seriousness, our prayers go with these brave men . . . We hope indeed that our first Magellan of the empyrean may have God for his co-pilot...
...course is Sir John Falstaff, in the considerably-augmented person of Daniel Seltzer, and the effervescent Mr. Seltzer is engaged in one of the most amazing tours de force ever perpetrated upon the risibilities of the Harvard community. He shows us an entirely fabulous creature, soaring in the Empyrean of obesity and insolence; he totters and grumbles with a rambunctious aplomb that never descends into querulousness, and--if I have not made the point sufficiently clear--he is hilarious...
...Master Sergeant Sam Karst, 34, from Greenville, S.C. kept going up. As the altimeter needle circled past the 50,000-ft mark, his eyes began to glaze, and the veins in his neck stood out like rawhide thongs. After 1½ minutes at an empyrean 55,000 ft. (equivalent to as much as 7½ miles above Evans' peak), Karst had had enough. Said he: "I could have stayed up longer, but I knew I was hypoxied,* so I signaled down...