Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, he similarly declared that he had no intention of kowtowing to Peking because "the more you lick China's boots, the more she scorns you." Undeterred by his host's verbiage, Bowles arrived on schedule, spent two long sessions with the unpredictable prince amid the tropical splendor of his Chamcar Mon Palace in Pnompenh...
...Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room is now crumbling in decay. Once rich and powerful, his kingdom is now poor, famished and depopulated. His erstwhile magnificent army has dwindled to a single guard, and life-the ultimate deserter-is about to flee his court...
They read ecclesiastic history, pored over medieval manuscripts, and for relaxation visited cathedrals or read their contemporaries: Tennyson, who was writing about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
Converted from the Morse Music Library the Lounge includes a living room a kitchen area, and several small rooms with doors. The remains of the library offered last year's visitors with numerous opportunities for splendor in the shelves. Miss Clark said that the North House Committee would probably re-open the Lounge if a regular staff signed up or if demand were sufficient to merit recruiting supervisors...
After almost 26 years of neglect and disuse, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler's architectural masterpiece had been restored to its original splendor, and was open for business once again...