Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of voting shouldn't be overplayed. But perhaps you can glean a little existential satisfaction out of the process of indicating one of your decisions. So when you do vote, the process has to have some ostensible meaning. You have to have a Grand Plan which can count towards effecting some sort of result (so your act can have meaning) and which will give some purpose to your participating in the process (so your act will have a meaning). Here...
...phenomenal single performances in track and field history. In 1935, Jesse Owens set a long-jump mark of 26 ft. 8¾ in. that stood for 25 years. Since 1960, Boston and Ter-Ovanesyan have between them broken the record six times, but managed to increase it by a grand total of only 8½ in. Then came Beamon. He charged down the runway and powered off the board, hands and arms flapping like a giant awkward bird. His body jackknifed, his legs spread-eagled before he slammed into the pit. When the Scoreboard flashed the result, the crowd gasped...
John K. Fairbank '29, Director of the East Asian Research Center, termed the choice "grand," adding however that he has never read any of Kawabata's works...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...pure surrealism, voiced in sound. The words of its text are employed as much for their acoustic qualities as for their semantic meaning. The result is a kind of anti-opera in which verbal and musical ideas constantly dissolve into one another, yet are finally apotheosized into a grand, compelling musical sonorama...