Word: floridation
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...already has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, there would be no need for her to risk a campaign and all its attendant criticism from opposition leaders and an unshackled press. There are signs of a drift toward a cult of personality. The back of one bus bears the florid declaration COURAGE AND CLARITY OF VISION, THY NAME IS INDIRA GANDHI. The government-run television has also stepped up its already lavish coverage of the Prime Minister and her Cabinet...
Very little of this--not even the fact that Crooks is worried--will get through to John Dwinell, the director of the Harvard Graduate Society, an alumni organization for people who studied for their doctorates here. Dwinell, a large and florid man, has a proposition for Crooks this morning--or, more bluntly, he needs a favor. Dwinell's constituency now gets half-price on Summer School tuition, but he's trying to put together a special package to increase their loyalty to Harvard...
...reasons this has been such a good story is that, like Rothschild, the main characters in the publishing scandal are very earnest and personable people--florid and loquacious reminders that the academic specimens around here who wear ties and sit behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter...
...Milan's La Scala. Just as Handel's Julius Caesar at the City Opera had established her American reputation in 1966, the La Scala Siege made her an international star. Last week one could see and hear why. In lesser hands, Rossini's florid vocal writing might be just that-little more than tedious vocalizing. With Sills, a mistress of bel canto, each triplet, each double-octave run, each pianissimo high note was given musical and dramatic meaning. At one point in the second act, she sang lying on her back on one of Maometto...
Flanagan is a short, burly, handsome man with a beaverish grin. He wears a different tie to court every day and their florid colors are rivalled in the dull courtroom only by the countenances of his fellow prosecutors. Joseph I. Mulligan, Charles Dunn and Donald Brennan are a trio with vinous-colored faces and gray hair, that has rarely rustled from the branch, inhaling the soporific incense of their sedentary station at the prosecution table. Flanagan does the arguing...