Word: lavishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Trujillo maintains upwards of 20 residences, provides with a lavish hand for his relatives, his children, legitimate and illegitimate, his many mistresses. He gets most of his income from his business enterprises at home and abroad, taking advantage of the monopolies he grants himself. A lover of farms and cattle, he is the nation's No. 1 landowner. Dominicans explain how Trujillo got his lands: "If the farmer did not sell, his widow did." His holdings cannot even be guessed at, since there is no clear-cut line between what belongs to Trujillo and what belongs to the state...
...economic punditry, forecasts and crusades, e.g., their defense of Dean Acheson and attacks on Louis Johnson while Defense Secretary. Yaleman Stewart is scholarly, quiet; Harvardman Joe, aggressive, facile, gregarious, steers the team. The brothers soak up information incessantly at interviews (upwards of 40 a week), at Joe's lavish parties in his cinder-block-and-glass house in Georgetown, or by legwork around the globe. (Each spends at least part of the year abroad...
Show Boat (M-G-M), launched as a novel by Edna Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never...
...Musical in Manhattan Flahooley (music by Sammy Fain; book & lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Harburg & Saidy) is a lavish attempt by the creators of Finian's Rainbow to repeat their success. They fail, in part perhaps from too laboriously repeating their formula. Once again they have mingled the tinkling sheep bells of fantasy with the braying loudspeakers of satire, this time robbing the Arabian Nights while ribbing American Big Business. What results is all the hurly-burly of a carnival with very little of the gaiety...
...longer is religion the keystone of the educational arch, but rather one stone among many . . . Our educational system has lost what had been its principle of coherence and its instrument of cohesion . . . The contemporary university curriculum reminds one of nothing so much as a lavish cafeteria, where unnumbered tasty intellectual delicacies are strung along a moving belt for individual selection without benefit of dietary advice or caloric balance...