Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FROM a door of Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place came the glorious skirl of bagpipes and the thunderous roll of drums. Smartly clad in black jackets and Kennedy tartan kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago-Richard J. Daley...
...Playhouse, in its fifth and perhaps liveliest season, is TV's only surviving weekly theater series. This year's offerings have featured the ubiquitous Miss Hampshire in a glorious BBC revival of Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband, Helen Hayes in an engaging self-portrait, and Kim Stanley on a bill of one-acters by Tennessee Williams. Last week Playhouse launched a six-part retrospective of life and film in the 1930s. One aim of the series is to slash through the current sentimentalization of the Great Depression era. "Young people romanticize the '30s," says Arthur...
...Indians any the better for it all? Isn't Soldier Blue equally as racist as any other two-bit Western we've ever seen? Does the blood make any difference? Does Ralph Nelson express any concern or feeling for the bodies his soldiers mutilate in such glorious, wide-screen technicolor...
...emerged from MGM, however, the film became the story of the maturing of youth through battle. And the tacked-on narration included such glorious howlers as these lines from the "prologue...
...disaster spurs a belated environmental consciousness, national pride apparently does not. Italy, once "the garden of Europe," is now choking in litter and traffic congestion. Of its 5,000 miles of glorious coastline, 4,320 are polluted by municipal and industrial wastes...