Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discipline in the Executive structure of Government. The press is in a destructive mood, he believes. "It comes because of disappointment with Government," he says. "L.B.J. had a lot to do with it, loading on all of those Government programs. J.F.K. raised foreign policy expectations. All of this created grand illusions that all problems are solvable. All problems are not solvable...
Pretoria carries on its grand plan for apartheid...
...turning from an imperial power into a cultural artifact. As such, she was one of the most visited cities of Europe. For an artist, a trip to see the Bellinis and Titians was an obligatory part of his education-as necessary, if he wanted to paint murals in the grand manner, as studying the classical ruins of Rome. Painters flocked to Venice from north of the Alps as well as from other centers in Italy, and this gave an eclectic tone to Venetian art. With no dominant brush to impose its presence, as Titian's had, almost anything went...
...getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the meliorative principle, in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor...
DIED. Guy Bolton, 96, grand old man of the Broadway musical who, with his fellow Englishman P.G. Wodehouse, wrote the books for shows with tunes by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern; in London. Bolton collaborated on works that were vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence (Oh, Kay!), Ethel Merman (Anything Goes) and Fred Astaire (Lady, Be Good!), as well as the recently revived Very Good Eddie...