Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reformers! I suppose you'd like to see a kindly socialism, a free form of slavery . . .?" That is the vision that addles the heads of the two principal characters in the subplot-the student Seryozha and his girl Katya. Seryozha dreams of "a new world Communist and radiant" in which "top wages would be paid to cleaning women. Cabinet ministers would be kept on short rations to make sure of their disinterested motives. Money, torture and thievery would be abolished." Alas, he too is fatally infected by the dynamics of all Utopias. His vision demands that those who disobey...
Ending a two-year Mississippi hegemony, radiant Nancy Anne Fleming, 18, of minuscule (pop. 2,346) Montague, Mich, found herself Miss America of 1961. While she was sewing up the title with victories in the talent (dressmaking) and bathing-suit (35-22-35) preliminaries at Atlantic City, her Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams, was campaigning in New Jersey for Jack Kennedy. Although he missed her crowning, "Soapy" slipped into town in time for the subsequent Coronation Ball and a dance with his comely constituent, who magnanimously labeled it "my second biggest thrill of the night...
...cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying hard (see cuts). But the big journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong, immediate appeal to almost every class and group of voters. The Democrats have not merely chosen a formidable contestant; they have chosen a truly remarkable man, full of promise, with a strength and stature no one can doubt...
...Miracle Worker. In William Gibson's story of the dark life led by blind little Helen Keller, Patty Duke as Helen and Anne Bancroft as her teacher Annie Sullivan give radiant performances...
...Miracle Worker. In William Gibson's story of the dark life led by blind little Helen Keller, Patty Duke as Helen and Anne Bancroft as her teacher Anne Sullivan give radiant performances...