Word: lucullan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spit like an alley cat. The Red Sox's General Manager Joe Cronin made a hasty diagnosis, this time prescribed a generous dollop of a tested home remedy. He fined Ted $5,000. One of the best batters in baseball history had finally matched Babe Ruth, whose Lucullan feats with hot dogs, soda pop, fast women and the old bubbly earned the Babe the same fine back...
...Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color. Except for a few obviously toy boats in the opening shot, each scene appears built to a supercolossal scale, and the film's small passions are played out amid fountained gardens, marble audience halls, Lucullan bedrooms and latticed chambers...
...that Freshman Advisers, like Departmental tutors, are in a unique position to remind students, on the part of the Faculty, that there is more to a Harvard education than so many hour examinations. But consideration for the many Freshmen I have not treated and shall not treat in the Lucullan manner your article implied requires me to explain publicity that, in my opinion, "lubrication" (as you put it) is not the only alternative to lucubration. Harlan P. Hanson, Director, Program of Advanced Standing
Today the bronzes are part of the fabulous collection left the gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced...
...work was performed by a fine semi-amateur company. The music was almost unrelieved dissonance, both in the 35-pIayer orchestra and in the singers' melodic lines. But it provided a Lucullan feast of varying moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...