Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Columnist Ann Landers, 48. "Today, I don't think in terms of myself but rather how I can be part of something bigger and better." She echoes G. B. Shaw's creed: "Happiness, a paltry goal. The thing is to be used, spent, squandered in the splendor of one of life's consuming causes...
...high "Christ of the Ozarks" is visible ten miles away, will soon be illuminated at night by blue, violet and purple spot lights. Why did Smith put it up? "A vision in my own heart," he says, "of wanting to see a statue of Jesus Christ rise in monumental splendor." And, ah, another reason: Smith plans to use the statue as a grave marker for his wife and himself, is having a cemetery prepared near the sculpture's base...
...made a fortune in real estate before he was 30, and spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...
Animal images kept wriggling into the conversation, as when one boy suggested the place was "full of free beef," Another, whose sartorial splendor was soiled by an unsightly sweat stain, muttered...
...very minor poet for Paris' L'Express once raved: "What a lovely face, what carnal splendor, what a future!" Since those anapaests were hatched, the lass from Tunis, Actress Claudia Cardinale, 28, has taken her splendors to Hollywood, where not long ago she finished a farce with Rock Hudson called Blindfold. Everyone's eyes were wide open in Manhattan, when Claudia arrived to flack for the picture and offer learned comments right from the bosom. "It's not the only thing any more," she demurely told Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson. "You used to look only...