Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean while a band of intellectuals discussed what it all meant. Some never showed up: specifically Arthur C. Clarke, co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rocket Titan Wernher von Braun. But Novelist Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools) was on hand to describe the launching as "rather glorious." So was Norman Mailer, who argued that the space shots should have included experiments in magic and telepathy. The problem: only about 40 people bought the premium tickets; the remainder were various "guests," including travel agents, some Philadelphia clothing-store executives and 15 fashion editors. Estimated loss on the great...
...Juan is a classic example, and the story, as Moliere tells it, is not substantially different from Mozart's Don Giovanni, though distinctly less glorious as a work of art. Don Juan is a great seducer, charmer, liar and baneful curse to his father (Bill Moor), but he is something of more disturbing grandeur than that. He is a rebel on the scale of Lucifer. He defies God by challenging the order of things, by being as great an amoralist as one presumes God to be a moralist. He scoffs at fidelity, truth and honor as the manacles...
Four years ago a Harvard interviewer asked me what I planned to do after college. That was a long way from the glorious world of high school extracurriculars and I paused a while before replying that I thought I'd go to "Law School" and then be a "Lawyer Active In Politics." In mid-cliche I was so embarassed I decided then forever that I'd never be a lawyer. A year later, after I'd read Theodore Roszak's The Making of the Counter Culture. I was boring my father with excited talk about how I was going...
...AUDIENCE STILL STANDS for "God Save the Queen," and they send her victorious, happy and glorious before every performance, but things have changed at the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Agassiz is no longer packed for opening night and even with the customary G&S ringers in the audience the shouts of "Encore" sound weak More's the pity, because Patience is the big success G&S has needed for these many years...
Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackerman said last night that Sargent's emphasis on mass transit was "just glorious," since "one road leads to another." She said that she favors extending the Red Line, or some alternate rapid transit route, from Harvard Square...