Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known as "the Golden Horseshoe," and selling at $500 per place for the 76-day home season, each box is equipped with private lockers, tables, telephones, and, on call, waiters (last week the waiter service was not quite ready). For San Francisco's often chilly weather, there is radiant heating under the seats...
...Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points out, was the film Baby Doll, and the problem there lay more in Hollywood than...
...their first public outing since proclamation of their engagement, Britain's radiant Princess Margaret and her handsome fiance, London Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, showed up at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for a charity ballet performance. After crowds outside cheered and shouted, "God bless you both!" the couple moved inside to the royal box and a two-minute ovation from some 2,000 ballet goers. Trailing Margaret by the protocol-prescribed three paces, Tony showed that he had learned his lessons well. There was indeed a clear hint of who his tutor might be: acknowledging the applause...
...arms flung wide in greeting, flower petals stuck to his pink and sweating scalp, a delighted grin on his face, as he rode down stately boulevards, through exotic cities, among multitudes of strange people. And somehow, whenever he made contact with the people, Dwight Eisenhower's radiant personality touched the Latinos, and the millions cheered. In the warmth of the uproarious welcome for the norteamericano President, old animosities and old suspicions melted perceptibly...