Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsophisticated Arabs recognize that Communism is a foreign import. Arabs still dream of the time, twelve centuries ago, when their forebears dominated a vast sweep of Europe, from the banks of the Indus to the valley of the Loire. They might use Communist help in hopes of restoring that glorious past, but they are not likely to accept Communist suzerainty...
Koichiro Asakai, Japan's former Ambassador to Washington, used to have what he called a "recurring nightmare." It was that he would "wake up one glorious morning to find that the U.S. had recognized Communist China, having given Japan no advance notification." Three weeks ago, when Richard Nixon told a startled world that he intended to visit Peking, the unexpected announcement proved a bad dream indeed for Japan's Eisaku Sato. Coming as it did without any prior consultation and so little advance notification as to be humiliating, it left the 70-year-old Premier hurt, resentful...
...Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...
...Life promised Miller a glorious, fun filled imitation of picaresque art. He had persuaded his bosses at the State University of New York to spring him for a year at the Esalen Institute. The university was searching for new routes to learning, and as a 29-year-old bachelor, Miller would be its one-man Lewis and Clark Expedition to the encounter-group center in Big Sur, Calif...
...speaker is Pat Angelo (Alan King), a Mafioso gone straight. Plump and vested, he wants no part in a major crime planned by ex-Con Duke Anderson (Sean Connery). But Duke is persuasive, the take promises to be in the millions, and what the hell, Pat misses the glorious game of cops and robbers. So he gives the green light and the dirty sport begins, with a Fifth Avenue luxury apartment house as the scene of the heist...