Word: grand
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Comparing color schemes, peering into closets, peeking at the view from every room, the Richard Nixons looked like any other householders casing the premises. With a difference. The Nixons' dreamhouse really is one. It comprises 132 rooms-"big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama," as Thomas Jefferson observed-offers every convenience from a heated swimming pool to greenhouses and painless gardens, on 18 pristine acres of priceless downtown D.C. real estate. And it evokes some of the richest moments of American history. It may take some getting used...
...psychiatrists or psychologists have ever examined one, but they theorize that the skyjacker is making a grand attention-getting gesture that he thinks will forever remove him from anonymity and impotence among the faceless millions of a mass society. "Behind it is the omnipotent fantasy," reasons Dr. Frederick Hacker, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California. "To steal an airplane has a lot to do with feelings of masculinity that need strengthening." Says Dr. Leonard Olinger, who teaches abnormal psychology at U.S.C.: "He's in the same class as the assassin, the same sort of acting...
Nixon appealed to Americans to join individually and actively in solving the nation's problems?a standard passage in presidential oratory?but he did it in personal, vivid terms: "We need the energies of our people, enlisted not only in grand enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. With these, we today can build a great cathedral of the spirit, each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing...
...With luck and hard work," says Arthur Clarke, the dean of science-fiction writers, "we have a chance to see the final end of the Dark Ages." It seems an irresistible vision, a Faustian grand finale for rational humanist...
...argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country. Dubbing his new nation the "Grand Capri Republic," he made plans to "occupy and defend the area against all comers...