Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's 60th President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
...love all those demented old dames of the old operas," she says. "They're loony, but the music's wonderful." The following evening offered Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 49, making her belated debut at the Met singing the demanding role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Blondly radiant, and in sure control of her pure soprano, grown a shade harder over the years, Schwarzkopf proved that her Marschallin is still the most memorable since Lotte Lehmann's in the 1930s...
...Block, the Stone and the Print," the show contrasts the medium with the result-often as dramatic as the difference between rabbit glue (that's one new art material) and beauty. The apparently blank expression of a plate can, when variously inked and pressed on paper, become more radiant than a rainbow...
...order of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the shameful names had been changed to ones more rich in hope and Socialist Realism. Among the changes already being incorporated in all Russian maps and tourist guides: Delight, Berry Patch and Pinewoods; Friendship, Cherry Trees and Radiant Glow...
...Islands), and today they virtually have common citizenship. They are linked by similar parliamentary systems, laws, education, a Lutheran background, their hunger for books and food, the absence of class, race or religious frictions or of governmental corruption. A passion for exercise explains the firm figures, clear eyes and radiant complexions of their beautiful women...