Word: glorious
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...life spanned some of the most glorious years of modern British history and some of the most traumatic-from the empire's pinnacle at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, through two devastating wars, to the humiliating retreat from Suez in 1956 and the prospect of devolution at home. For three decades he was a highly visible, thoroughly photogenic presence at international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved...
Kremer appears headed for international renown. His technique is complete, his tone thinner than some but capable of glorious sunbursts of sound. He is no "Watch me go" virtuoso. His debut program, for example, was devoid of the crowd-arousing Romantic potboilers favored by so many of his Soviet predecessors. Instead, he and his piano accompanist, Xenia Knorre, played Beethoven's dreamy, introspective Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96. And wonderfully. They also offered an American work not many U.S. artists take the trouble to learn: Charles Ives' frolicsome Sonata No. 4 (Children...
While Carter has a long way to go to prove himself, his coming to power overshadowed all other developments in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial. The U.S. gave itself a glorious birthday party?climaxed forever in the mind's eye by the vision of the tall ships ghosting up New York Harbor. There was also a valid occasion for some old-fashioned Yankee Doodle pride. For the first time in the 75-year history of the honors, all of the Nobel Prizes went to Americans?six men won or shared the science awards, and Saul Bellow capped a distinguished...
...Hubert have no choice; such a talent must be preserved for the greater veneration and glory of God. Hubert, a devout and obedient lad, would nonetheless like to know what he will be missing from the manhood that is not to be his. "I know it's glorious to have God's favor," says the potential castrato, "and I'm as grateful for it as I can be, but I caa't prevent myself from wishing it had taken another form...
...from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious paeans to "manifest destiny...