Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...14th century Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, in central Italy 80 miles south of Rome, was razed by Allied bombers because it was being used as a German stronghold. Today the monastery has been rebuilt in all its Renaissance splendor. Nonetheless, said Pope Paul VI, 67, consecrating its new church, "Just as it seems incredible that war should have been made against this abbey, so it does not seem real to us to see it restored. It is as if it wished to delude us into thinking nothing had happened. We do not wish to pass judgment on those...
...fruit of knowledge--recent Biblical study indicates--he entered a new realm. No longer the chosen son, he was forced, as undergraduates say, "to sweat it." As a consequence, the real ethos of the Expulsion Complex is nostalgia; embellished reminiscences in which one's pre-Harvard splendor may become, in retrospect near dazzling...
RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...
Rococo was a royal style, yet one born of relief at the passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer...
...soldiers who cannot precede the King down stairs without appearing to be very much afraid they will trip. It was a clever idea to include a draw-bridge in the set, but the one in the current production draws attention to itself with its creaking, instead of adding splendor to Bolingbroke's entrance over it. And while much can obviously be done with heraldic devices in all the history plays, this Richard is literally cluttered with them...