Word: exaltedness
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Heralded into court by the bailiffs command, "Hear ye! Hear ye!" (Oyez! Oyez! in the Supreme Court, which prefers Old French), judges understandably take an exalted view of themselves. An Indiana judge, sued for authorizing in 1971 the sterilization of a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge, proclaimed in...
Upstairs, Downstairs is not high drama, and it may not even be drama at all. It is soap opera, the most exalted soap opera ever to be shown on TV. For the addicted there is still one final fix. The syndicators are holding back five additional early episodes, which were...
Most of these architects are under 50, which is young in a profession whose only guarantee of big jobs is the slow growth of practical reputation. Apart from age, the main thing they have in common is a fascination with architecture as language. When tradition (including the Modernist tradition) appears...
For wine lovers around the world, a momentous annual ritual is the wine auction in the Burgundian city of Beaune. Technically, it is a charity sale: for the past 127 years, the auction has been the principal source of support for the Hospices de Beaune, a hospital that has been...
These estian maxims, though they might seem puzzling to some, can only come as heartening news to this particular crowd. Most of them, the 1,500 or so gathered here, are in the market for enlightenment. And if "nothing" is indeed its source, they have certainly managed to be in...