Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...multi-volume autobiography Mirror in My House, is a shrewd compromise between truth and the blander stuff that makes agreeable popular entertainment. The man himself was a crusty, anticlerical Communist, scarcely the image of a conventional movie hero, though he also happened to be one of the grandest playwrights of the 20th century. Cassidy, filmed in and around Dublin with a wholehearted feel for the gritty poetry of the slums where the author lived and worked at the time of the Troubles, cuts O'Casey down to swallowable size...
...Puck Fair at Killorglin in West Kerry is an unholy midsummer Sabbath. Its origins are pre-Christian. The Puck is a wild male goat, the grandest that can be caught. For three days he rules. Priests and police crouch indoors. Strange road folk called tinkers swarm from caravans. Horse and cattle traders bargain early and drink late. Maidens and married ladies, undanced with for the rest of the year, play ten-toes-up with bumpkins made bold by Puck's fine pungence...
...Salle des Fetes, one thousand newsmen and the French Cabinet sat in splendor on spindly gilt chairs, buzzing to themselves in the perfumed heat. Precisely at 3 o'clock, the buzzing stopped, a white-gloved valet parted the brocaded curtains in front of them, and out stepped the grandest Frenchman of them all. "Good day, ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate myself on seeing you," said Charles de Gaulle, opening his eleventh semiannual convocation of the press...
...driven by electric motors, shocked gallerygoers with a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished. Then, in 1923, in his grandest gesture of all, he announced that he was abandoning art for a worthier occupation: playing chess...
Once they were called the beautiful people and were presumed to have titles. Others knew them better as the idle rich. But today there are few titles among them, they are not that rich, nor are they idle. Less grand than the grandest of an older generation, but also less ostentatious, they might be called the New Elegants. And they are not a numbered set revolving around a few Manhattan town houses and Newport mansions but a relaxed confraternity that extends the length and breadth of the land...