Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...license as ship's captain, though he has never set foot on an oceangoing deck. At 60 he "retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor in bed. One fine day Vasco is asked to take command of a real ship. Unrattled, the sofa salt mounts the bridge, delegates all authority to the chief mate-until a moment arrives when he cannot escape command. But the very elements conspire to make him a hero...
...fashioned his art to survive its locale - and in New York, where Balanchine has lived and worked for the past 30 years, its locales have been dingy, gloomy, unfriendly or cramped. But when Balanchine's New York City Ballet opened its spring season in the crystal splendor of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center last week, the jewel was at last in a proper setting. The new theater is magnificent, and so was the ballet...
...With audiences arriving at each and the fountain splashing between, both buildings acquire an air of excitement that is beyond the reach of either alone. But where Philharmonic Hall evokes a modern age of icy grandeur, the New York State Theater is a warm and elegant restatement of traditional splendor - reminiscent, in fact, of the old Maryinsky...
Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
...improves by two or three lengths simply by having Willie on its back. Bettors lucky enough to back him on one of his hot days (eight times in his career he has won six races on a single card) have been known to buy Rolls-Royces and retire in splendor to places like Palm Beach and Acapulco. And whenever a big race rolls around, the notation "Jockey: W. Shoemaker" opposite a horse's name is often enough to send it off the favorite. That is just what happened this month when Willie announced that he would ride the California...