Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he died in 1945, he was almost forgotten. His funeral was an American travesty, attended by all the preposterous contradictions of his unlikely life. Services were held in a Congregational church; a Communist delivered the eulogy; and Dreiser was interred with capitalistic splendor at Forest Lawn, in the plot next...
...stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
Even such a shining demigod as Bill Bradley tarnishes his splendor when he guards Williams. Bradley proved that he could scuffle with the best of them before an overflow crowd here two weeks ago. "He's one of the roughest players around," Williams said flatly in an interview yesterday...
...Splendor & Slime. David Stacton has been brilliant and exasperating before this. In a dozen earlier novels he has illuminated dark corners of everything from ancient Egypt to feudal Japan, from the gory Renaissance legend of the Duchess of Amalfi to the aftermath of the assassination of Lincoln. In each, over the violent pulse and slash of ancient action broods a satanic modern intelligence. He is unique for the wit and sinewy pertinence of his asides. And until now, his story lines have also been clearly muscled, if often knotty...
Under the heavily encrusted ceiling of the Elysee Palace's Salle des Fetes, one thousand newsmen and the French Cabinet sat in splendor on spindly gilt chairs, buzzing to themselves in the perfumed heat. Precisely at 3 o'clock, the buzzing stopped, a white-gloved valet parted the brocaded curtains in front of them, and out stepped the grandest Frenchman of them all. "Good day, ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate myself on seeing you," said Charles de Gaulle, opening his eleventh semiannual convocation of the press...