Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THESE glorious liberties which Gomes has secured for us must seem positively inglorious in the light of the magnificent and absolute liberty which he secures for the Christian conscience...
Frivolous, you say; self-indulgent too. Never mind, say I. People who sneer thus are merely afflicted with geography envy; they are wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great can be accomplished where palm trees grow outdoors. The technical innovations in electronics and biotechnology begotten by labs at Stanford and Berkeley, not to mention the invention of the Jefferson Airplane, put the lie to such wrongheaded thinking. Important things do happen here...
...American middle classes spent their eight years under Reagan spending, trying to live up to the glitz. Image was everything, and Polo was the rage. The Polo store, with its antiqued mahogany, riding gear and posh addresses crafted an image of a glorious Edwardian gentry past that America never...
...victimization drama. We're not talking about glitzy, Danielle Steel soap operas, or the traditional disease-of-the-week tearjerker. These are more "serious" dramas, frequently based on real-life news events and dealing with important issues. Stripped to their essence, however, they are about one thing: extravagant, glorious suffering...
...cool, cloistered spaces, the casts of the great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...