Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iceland had a glorious dawn, and has lain in twilight ever since," wrote British Historian James Bryce after an 1872 visit to the island. "It is hardly possible that she should again be called on to play a part in history." This week, however, Iceland's very remoteness has thrust it onto center stage. President Reagan reportedly chose Reykjavik over London for this meeting to minimize distractions. The driving force behind this superpower outing, according to both Soviet and U.S. officials, is "less is best." In attracting the two leaders, Iceland's spartan isolation may have been its major selling...
...Richard Snee) and Angie (Carroll Goldfarb) have hit upon the bright idea of using a golf course to carry out their illicit love affair; for "seventeen glorious Sundays," the pair have made love on succeeding holes. With lines like "ooh, I love it on the back nine," Angie chases and pants over Don; he, for the most part, brushes her off and plays hard to like...
...American, of course: Johnson the Texan, Nixon from Whittier, Calif., Carter from south Georgia. But their pasts were all shadowed, in different ways, by an obscure sense of biographical hurt. Reagan's father was an improvident alcoholic in Dixon, Ill., and yet Reagan's mythic hometown America is a glorious place. Reagan communicates a bright and triumphant American past...
Those who have always dreamt of Lancelot's glorious chivalry can enroll in Engl S-114, "Knights and Ladies: The Changing Vision of Romance." With Harvard Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature John T. Koch at the helm of the round table, students will discuss medieval romance...
...improbably) like Japan: nearly everything that one can say about Texas can be countered by an opposite and equally true assertion. Not quite. If you say Texas is big, you cannot also say that Texas is small. But if you say Texas is historically glorious, you can equally say that Texas has been ugly and mean, a nest of fire ants and rattlesnakes and men somewhat worse. If you say it is heroic, you might also point out that Sam Houston, when he lived among the Cherokees, was known as Big Drunk. If you say Texas is rich...