Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denials came on the heels of reports that Scorchdancer Josephine Baker, longtime toast of the Paris stage, had" died in Casablanca. New word was that the American-born colored comedienne was lounging in the native quarter of Morocco's isolated Marrakech in "solitary Arabian splendor...
...carth to the other. In order to win protection for their investments, business men expanded their political activities from minor forays into the National Congress to a forth-right effort at capturing the whole government. The story of that seizure of power is told in all its squalid splendor...
...ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing...
...apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through pince-nez glasses, the arbiter of his world...
There is plenty of excellent observation in this novel, and a plentiful fear of nonconformity. There is not the slightest tremor of human mystery; there is nothing of the fear of God. Lacking these, human life is deprived of its splendor, law of its dignity, society of its tragicomic stature. So is The Just and the Unjust...