Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pregnancy Puff [April 17] represents a threat that chivalry, one of our most glorious institutions, will finally die. The woman who is truly pregnant will be the one who suffers; when she is forced to stand on a crowded bus, then the makers of the Puff will have gotten what they have been asking...
...yearning for intelligent, decisive government on the one hand and stability and continuity of national life on the other. Elizabeth's reign provided both to a degree almost unparalleled in history. She ruled for 45 years and gave her subjects leadership that was usually wise, often glorious, and always loving. "We loved her," one of her stalwarts said after her death, "for she said she did love us." Unlike Mary, Elizabeth was in charge from the moment she heard of the death of her sister Mary Tudor. "Little man, little man," she told an adviser who presumed to direct...
Maine's dilemma is to gain the benefits of economic development without ruining its glorious natural environment. That the poverty-stricken state will grow is certain: its thick stands of timber, its scenic land and deep harbors ensure more manufacturing, trade and tourism. As in most states, development has been disorderly, resulting in an ominous trend toward the most irreversible sort of pollution-badly used land. To stop that trend, A Maine Manifest proposes several steps, including...
...case, Bogdanovich is off and running toward his glorious re-run of the Golden Age. He is the industry's newest hot property, scrubbed and eager. He has taken to appearances on talk shows, nattily dressed, well equipped with wit and anecdote and has never been known to pass up a chance to call Orson Welles by his first name. He has started a blood-feud with a critic and has left his wife for an actress. All very Hollywood. If none of this will make his films any better, it will at least make the spaces between them more...
...Leverett House Thursday night. This musical, though, has no redeeming social value; the mask it puts on is tunefully announced in the opening song: "Weighty affairs will just have to wait... Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight!" Imperialism enters into the story just once: when the comically vainglorious captain, Miles Glorious, calls for the funeral of his apparently dead bride, he is asked, "But sir, do you have time? Isn't there a war somewhere...