Word: grandest
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Athletes have compared a great victory to the grandest of emotions--it's like reaching the top of Mt. Everest or flying over the Grand Canyon. "It's sublime," they say. "You can't describe it." But true to the old cliche, winning in the Ivy League has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it's time we stepped back and realized just how absurd the game we're playing has become...
...Henry Quinn of the Red Line Alert, a citizen's coalition opposed to the expansion to Alewife, says Cambridge will not benefit from the extension because the subway will serve only to bring in suburban commuters. "Why should we be the grandest, biggest parking lot that ever existed?" he asks, responding, "That's what will happen to us if we don't do something...
CLASSICAL Berlioz, Les Troyens (Philips, 5 LPs, 1970). Berlioz's grandest opera, powerfully conducted by his finest current interpreter, Colin Davis...