Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such choice has just been made, and what is needed in its aftermath is a little sympathy--for Gerald Ford, who spent two years of his life in the White House on a fluke of history, nearly earned the right to remain there, and now will return to Grand Rapids, where he should have been all along; for Jimmy Carter, who spent two years of his life trying to reach the White House, who has finally fulfilled one promise, and who will have many more to keep; for the campaign staffs and assorted workers, who succeeded and failed...
BUILDINGS HOLD OUR LIVES, but we have forgotten how they shape us. The house, the office building, the factory, the church contain daily activity, influence us their users in the small ways that ultimately determine the grand scene of our actions. What I say and do in my bedroom is significantly affected by the fire door located inescapably next to my bed, through which my neighbors and I can and do willy-nilly communicate all our audible bedroom life. My relations with Harvard bureaucracy (especially the Registrar's Office and UHS) are inextricably linked to the hostile grey sterility...
Despite Zappa's undeniably brilliant musical abilities--now, he's even into producing, having helped churn out the latest Grand Funk Railroad offering--he's still haunted by a past he largely denies...
...source of his sympathy for Carter. Fallows says Carter shares his interest in "the way government structurally gets screwed up and the way that conventional ideologies don't take care of a lot of the ways that government goes wrong." He offers the civil service unions--once a "grand hero of the left" but now an "impediment to much of what you want to do"--as one reason why he supports the ex-Georgia governor's at-times sacrilegious proposals for improving government services. Characteristically choosing the Vietnam War as an example, Fallows maintains that a theme that "rings...
Such rarely bandied words as "remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even...