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...many did: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a wisp of grey smoke with the whole horizon behind radiant with pink light, fading gently into a grey pastel sky. Nothing I have seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting...
...sentimental worship of the inarticulate. In 1939's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the sleekly senatorial Claude Rains attempts to conceal his corruption behind an impressive tapestry of rhetoric. But Jimmy Stewart, barely able to complete a sentence, engagingly stumbling over his words, wins out because his sheer radiant American virtue shines through the manipulative deceits inherent in language. It is possible that Adlai Stevenson lost the presidency twice in part because he spoke a little too well. This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities...
...Orthodox bishops preside over hourlong rites. "We are being trampled!" shouts Borg's mother, as she is shoved toward a rosebush on her way out. But the crowd is delighted with the dazzling scene: the world's finest tennis player and, at his side, a native daughter, radiant in a jewel-encrusted gown by Tenniswear Couturier Ted Tinling; it cost, they say, $8,000-four times the average Rumanian's yearly salary. "Long life!" chants the choir, and the couple heads off, this time in a flower-festooned oxcart, into...
...many admirers during her 25-year campaign to marry Marlborough when he and Consuelo were divorced. The art critic Bernard Berenson was mesmerized by the teen-age Gladys, and his wife, though jealous, felt the same. "She is radiant and sphinxlike ... Enchanting, but tiring. A wonderful creature, but too much of a born actress to take quite seriously. But so beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were...
Then the real Lucia Chase finally appeared (only she knows how old she is, but she looked effervescent and radiant in a fluffy pink dress). Alone in the spotlight, she seemed ill at ease and quickly beckoned all the dancers out from the wings. She hugged old comrades and youngsters just up from the corps. Later she likened them all to her clan...