Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other ways though, things haven't changed much. True, Alfred Hitchcock's arrival in the Square would now be a minor occurrence compared to Bob Dylan's grand entrance, but lines still form in front of Bogart movies at the local theaters. University librarians perpetually devise and abandon schemes to force students to return their books on time and Cambridge officials continue to fret over illegally parked cars. And the town remains, as The Crimson warned incoming freshmen more than two decades ago "a dreary place, given to rain and coal smoke and brown, granulated slush." Perhaps most importantly...
...evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...Would the U.S. ever again give itself to an undertaking of such boldness and magnitude? Surely some of the world's conspicuous difficulties - the food and energy shortages, to name but two glaring ones - seem deserving of comparable heroic efforts. Such problems so far, however, have inspired occasional grand rhetoric without matching action. So perhaps a better question is: Could the U.S. today even muster the combination of generosity, self-sacrifice and determined will that it dedicated to the rescue of Western Europe? Does the national character remain capable of that spirit...
...theft of such a large number of books is considered by law to be grand larceny, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday...
...universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy...