Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months in the shooting at Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
...first a concession to sartorial splendor. That stubble had to go. And he wasn't the bald-headed eagle. A little slickum, a little polish, smooth out a few of those wrinkles, he'd been letting himself get seedy lately. Look old, feel old. Now to get rid of that . . . . . . pot belly. There must be something to do about that. Some steam and a quick rubdown. Not too much; there was a beautiful day to be lived outside...
...Centennial Lacked Splendor...
...Yale was two hundred years old. Describing the bi-centennial celebration in New Haven, Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard wrote," It was a great success as an advertisement and interesting in many ways. But there was a total lack of splendor; there was not dignity or stateliness in the arrangements. The most serious lack was the absence of any presentation of the true ideal of a great university and of its supreme function in a modern democratic society...
...power when she claims to force love and intelligence to model their language upon her own. This abuse of power is not of God. It comes from the natural tendency of every form of collectivism, without exception, to abuse power." ¶ "It is in affliction itself that the splendor of God's mercy shines, from its very depths, in the heart of its inconsolable bitterness. If, still persevering in our love, we fall to the point where the soul cannot keep back the cry 'My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?', if we remain at this point...