Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civic Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago will be sorry for this!" As the servers, aghast at having a tigress by the tail, retreated, La Callas, cheered on by theater employees and fans, bared her fangs...
...Grand Canal of Venice, with realistic (if a bit jerky) gondolas passing by, and waiters bearing trays of steaming, rainbow-colored drinks...
Paradoxically, while he sketched rapidly, Delacroix spent eight months in preliminary studies for a single painting, The Massacre at Scio. In many ways, he approached painting itself as a great performer approaches music; he believed that only endless practice prepares the artist for the grand performance when he must soar above pedestrian problems of technique. He was in continual revolt against the neoclassic manner that Ingres had inherited from Napoleon's court painter. David. To find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from...
While merchants argue among themselves, U.S. housewives seem in solid agreement that stamps are dandy. In one busy day a West Coast grocer ran a check on his 1,700 shoppers, found that only one failed to ask for stamps. Grand Union President Lansing Shield has a simple explanation for the stamps' popularity: "Getting something for nothing and the squirrel instinct -some people even save string." For the budget-strapped housewife who needs a new toaster or set of dishes, and can get them simply by collecting stamps for money she had to spend anyway, the plan is irresistible...
...Grand Old Men of Harvard, George Lyman Kittredge, John Livingston Lowes, Charles Townsend Copeland and Irving Babbitt, had been on the intellectual scene so long by the twenties that legends had grown up around each one of them. Into this sacrosanct atmosphere one fall came storming a brash, rebellious youngster fresh from a Minnespolis high school, who proceeded to impress many of these men almost as much as they impressed him, and to embark on a career which was already becoming legend before be had graduated. In his sophomore year be submitted a course essay on "Romantic Hellenism" to Irving...