Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Electric, for example, architects turned a huge dome inside out, revealing its supporting lining of intersticed steel so that its overall look suggests tripes à la mode de G.E. IBM, in a glorious defiance of sanity, has set what appears to be a 50-ton egg on a nest of plastic in the tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that...
...poet. "Hideous landscape here," he wrote home. "Vile poisons, foul language. Everything unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dugout all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious...
Booth, said Dr. Robinson, had told his friends: "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Lincoln!" This concept may motivate more assassins than is now realized. "It may have been a major motivation to Lee Oswald. We know Oswald was unhappy in school, in the Marine Corps, in the Soviet Union, and in his own country. He probably would have tried to become an anarchist if he had lived around...
...more urgent century, however, seemed to have beached the paper, like Britain itself, in the glorious past. Once the Times commanded more readers than all other national dailies combined; today it is the least of them, with 254,000 circulation: 2% of total newspaper readership and less than 5% of the circulation of that popular giant, the Daily Mirror...
Still the Kirkland players do well by Euripides in presenting an Orestes which becomes sardonic and satirical. When Appollo arises to save the assembled from destruction in the burning house of Atreum, the deus ex machina is not a convention but a joke; it's almost as if the Glorious Messenger has come to the rescue of Mack the Knife. The disparity between real and ideal which is developed throughout, the absence of any solution to the general corruption, is neatly brought home by Guzzetti's staging of a totally unconvincing resolution...