Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glorious Diversity. Robert Moses' policies have produced fiscal prospects that are unprecedented in the fair game: a projected $99.1 million surplus in the fair's two seasons, after paying back $24 million to New York City for expenses incurred, plus giving the city an additional $40 million. Thus the fair may not present the future with the impact that a look at television, nylon and air conditioning had in 1939. But it will make far more money and pull more people through its gates than any other fair anywhere, ever...
...crowds that come will have more fun than ever with all the fair's glorious diversity. Almost every kind of human situation has been provided...
...excesses began to worry some Brazilians. But the vast majority seemed squarely behind the people in uniform. Suddenly everyone was scrambling to climb aboard the bandwagon. Union after union once dominated by the Communist-run General Labor Command began buying newspaper ads cheering the "victory of the glorious forces." One of the most radical divisions of Goulart's own Labor Party vowed to throw out "all extremist elements." By a 75 to 0 vote, the Minas Gerais state legislature kicked out three extremist congressmen; in Natal, the city council voted 25 to 0 to impeach their leftist mayor despite...
SCIENCE: THE GLORIOUS ENTERTAINMENT by Jacques Barzun. 322 pages. Harper...
...lines, go through the paces--never approaching the wildly imaginative conviction of the inventors themselves. The result is a diverting little production (for much of the material manages somehow to shine through the performances) sapped of all the radical, outrageous vitality that makes the New York show so glorious...