Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What you've done, buddy, you've given your readers a glorious vision of a superannuated Holden Caulfield shoving Maalox into his mouth and peering nearsightedly into the medicine-cabinet mirror in an attempt to meditate his hairline out of receding...
...more idealized ways, and in ways which echo a deeper social disillusionment. Love comes at the purgative ending of The Wild Bunch, when gunslinger Pike Bishop tries to save Mexican rebel Angel from the torture of the Federales--only to be slaughtered in a suicidal attack both epic and glorious. It becomes muted, perhaps sadder, in The Ballad of Cable Hogue: Hogue's woman leaves him and his desert home, and returns too late to share his life. She brings back San Francisco finery, and the circa 1910 auto that kills...
Terror, even when cloaked in idealism, is an ugly form of politics?the strategy of determined, desperate men. The I.R.A. is determined to survive and to win. Says Sean MacStiofáin, chief of staff of the army's militant Provisional wing: "This is not just another glorious phase in Irish history. We must win. We can't afford to lose. We will keep the campaign going regardless of the cost to ourselves, regardless of the cost to anyone else...
...points out the musical symbolizations of the text. I had always known that Baroque, music did that, but I tended not to notice it as much as I do now. I sing much more intelligently now." The soprano agreed: "It's difficult to mediate between concentrating on the small, glorious moment and the macrostructure of a piece of music. John points out through his conducting that the small moments are the integral parts of the whole work. I've learned to look for that...
Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...