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...things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will survive." Meanwhile, for that night, the dream and the memory and the music drowned out the murmurs of caution. And one onlooker who had been there for all the glory times judged this perhaps the grandest. Said Francis ("Doll") Thomas, 91, an electrician at the theater since 1933: "This is about the happiest day of my life...
...grandest grand opening celebrations in Cambridge history, the $75 million, 4-2 acre Charles Square complex opened its doors over the weekend to crowds of curious visitors...
...third novel, as in his 16 plays, Gurney remains a mordantly comic eulogist whose strengths are mood, milieu and character. The title refers to a black-tie dance, the grandest event on the social calendar back when there was a Society. The privileged crowd thinned out in the '60s, when the young singles and couples moved on to other cities or, more likely, the suburbs, to alcohol or to the angry consciousness of the Viet Nam epoch. Two decades later, a couple of nostalgic veterans of the deb-party circuit decide to revive the Snow Ball. Cooper Jones...
...Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
Exactly where Mr. and Mrs. Arnold honeymooned, no one seems to know. In fact nothing in the Dover town records or in the town history books mentions Arnold or his famous poem. If the Arnolds stopped at the grandest of the town's hotels in 1851, it would have been the Lord Warden, a square, elegant, four- story structure where Dickens gave readings and Napoleon III stayed the night. In those days one would not simply hop a train after a ship ride, but would plan to spend some restful time in Dover before proceeding inland...