Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Education Ahf were just a course in expository writing, it would be high on the list of glorious guts. But since it is supposed to be training high school graduates in writing college papers, it occupies a strategic educational position. All other General Education courses look to Ahf for improved student writing, and whatever shortcomings it has weakens the whole G.E. program...
...deeply grateful for this glorious land in which we live. We know it is a land choice above all others-the greatest nation under heaven. We thank thee for liberty-for our free agency, our way of life, and our free institutions...
...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
...left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...
...would have preferred a few more of these highpoints at the beginning, but it seemed to be Woodworth's plan to hold back as much as he could, saving the most glorious sounds for the final Hallclujah Chorus...