Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom of the press was restored to Czechoslovakia in March, when the Communist Party's Central Committee stripped the country's euphemistically named Central Publication Authority of its censorship powers and fired its boss. The transformation was immediate and spectacular...
...walls hang 16 prize paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists, including a voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision of an 1881 Varengeville to the moist verdure of a late (1906-16) Water Lilies...
Laurence Tisch, 45, has already had a fairly spectacular past. He graduated cum laude from New York University at 18, a year later earned his business-administration degree from Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Father Al Tisch, who had prospered operating summer camps, staked his son to $125,000, and Laurence-consulting ads in the New York Times-used it to purchase a resort hotel in New Jersey. He and his brother expanded before long to New York, where they bought or built such hotels as the Drake, the Warwick and the Americana. In 1960, at the ripe...
...39th International Eucharistic Congress-was oddly anachronistic in a day when a large and militant part of the Roman Catholic Church is turning away from pomp and tradition. The Eucharistic Congress, conceived in the late 19th century by a devout French grande dame, Marie Marthe Tamisier, is a liturgical spectacular that reaffirms the otherworldly glories of the faith. The event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony and doctrine, the congress could have little bearing...
...Bassarids, a stark, twelve-tone retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae. The libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman rang out with eloquent pathos. The cast struck a perfect balance of harshness and lyricism under Composer Henze's baton. Perhaps best of all, though, was the spectacular scene depicting the burning palace of Pentheus. Smoke billowed and red lights flickered. Once again flames soared at Santa Fe-but this time they were just part of the show...