Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mentor advised, his suggestive little Beard jiggling, seizure of the Domed Citadel, residence in the City named like the State of the Wise Teachers. From the Crest of Campus Hill, it overlooked a surrounding Plain. And here! exalted this Junior Professor, his little Beard suggesting, here! was a glorious Symbol for their ever-burgeoning Protest and loud Remonstration...
...Sing, glorious Mews!, with what studied Ease B-wen swirled the Samnelson's three Times round his Head. Sing, Mews! How, when the Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated...
...Lucius (Mitch Vogel) spends most of his time hanging out with a casually amoral employee of his grandfather's named Boon Hogganbeck (Steve McQueen). When Grandfather (Will Geer) and the rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly comely...