Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real estate, as in baseball or show business, most participants strive not only to be first in the standings but to let the world know about it. A pair of entrepreneurs named Alexander Di-Lorenzo, 48, and Sol Goldman, 47, are quite different. So quietly that almost nobody knew what was happening, they have become the biggest buyers of real estate in the nation's richest real estate market, New York City. Estimated gross value of their holdings: at least $200 million...
...that life at Harvard is for from boxing. Harvard is a land of tigers, transcendentalists, renaissance leaders, and seducers. My image of myself is revitalized. Now I'm a bold rebel against morality and society, now a figure in an Intellectual renaissance; now I'm Jack Kerouac, now Lorenzo de Medici. The old routine beckons irresistably ahead
...lights of the climax in Rex were replaced by the shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...
...early prophet of the century's sexual revolution, in prose and by example, D. H. Lawrence attracted swarms of intense female admirers, several of whom rushed into print right after his death with memoirs whose burden was that only the author understood "Lorenzo's" real self, and only his cloddish wife Frieda stood in the way of some blazing fusion that would make sexual, if not literary, history...
Michelangelo said that the doors might "fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise." All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery's portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of immortality. The double doors, 16 ft. by 9 ft., cast of bronze and overlaid with gold, held ten panels that told Old Testament tales in such grace ful relief that the metal seemed brushed on like oils...