Word: exaltedness
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Finally The Harvard Crimson and the New Kids on the Block have something in common: silly, juvenile outbursts that leave us wondering just how both have reached their exalted positions in the music and journalism worlds, respectively.
"What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote, "one sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny...
A generation later came Bernie Cornfeld with his exhortation, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" His company, Investors Overseas Services, specialized in mutual funds. "We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted. An IOS manager recalled the process in less exalted...
Leila is fond of exalted similes. "My heart blazes like Shelley's on that beach" (her boyfriend is back); "I wander in like Theseus into the Labyrinth" (she's in the wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow...
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the usual operations have been neglected while Prophet and her followers gear up for surviving the Armageddon she predicted in 1987, when she received a message from what she calls her "ascended masters." This exalted band includes Jesus, Buddha and Guru Ma's former husband...