Word: glorious
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...Umbrian capital of Perugia is never more glorious than on a long summer evening when its medieval streets are filled with the sound of jazz. After a day devoted to touring, swimming or an extremely long lunch, there's nothing like settling into Perugia's Arena Santa Giuliana to hear the endlessly inventive saxophonist Sonny Rollins deconstruct the melody of, say, Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie - in just the kind of magical twilight that might have inspired it. Monk's angular ballad could tumble out of Rollins' horn on July 17, when the star headlines the Umbria Jazz Festival...
...last hurrah of serious plays, at least the signs of a slowdown. Other forms of entertainment will take over and in 10 years there will be far less theater." Theatergoers hope that dark prediction never comes true. But just in case, they should make the most of this glorious Ibsen summer...
...because we don’t have the necessary motivation to finish our largely asinine and tedious work otherwise. The challenge posed by intentionally limiting the amount of time to complete an assignment is often the only fuel that keeps burning well into the late hours of those most glorious of college experiences—the all-nighters. It is this deliberate desire for absent motivation, coupled with an intrinsic, pride-based drive to still finish all work somewhat satisfactorily, that leads to quite the unhealthy cycle of procrastination, Harvard-style...
...America, the country of the young, is never easy," Halberstam writes, but these four men, whose lives up to that point had prepared them only for permanent adolescence, do it gracefully, if reluctantly. Their lives are definitively American, and although they lack second acts, Halberstam has given them a glorious, flaming, autumnal epilogue...
Monsoon Wedding isn’t a subtle film. It is, instead, melodrama at its glorious and exuberant best: When the screen isn’t drenched with the torrential rain of monsoon season, it is saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of color...