Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty...
Fifty-five years ago, the first workmen came to Washington's Mount Saint Alban to build a canopy under which President Theodore Roosevelt set the foundation stone for the Washington Cathedral. Now, in the still unfinished splendor of this Episcopal Church, the Very Rev. Francis Sayre Jr., dean of the cathedral, enjoys speculating on the progress of the many workmen who-on one job or another-have been around ever since. If past performance is a guide, the cathedral will not be completed until 1991, but Dean Sayre is undisturbed by temporal equations. His only hope, he says modestly...
Time after time, the TV cameras in Hollywood zoomed in on Natalie Wood in her aisle seat, the betting-odds favorite for the best actress of 1961 for her performance in Splendor in the Grass. But the best actress of the year was sitting in Rome smoking Viceroys...
Hollywood prejudice is unlikely to break down all the way in one year, so the odds are that the winner will be one of the other four nominees-Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) or Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Sophia's work in Two Women is more than comparable to any in that list, and she is going to fly 6,000 miles on the chance that Hollywood has the courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture...
Scene: a large corner office in a building set in lonely splendor on the site of the old New York World's Fair of 1939-40. President Robert Moses (called R.M. by his aides) is at his round desk-table. Rimmed around it are neatly dressed staffmen, their mouths at the ready in case R.M. says something that calls for a quick laugh. R.M. tilts back in his chair, scoops up some peanuts from a silver bowl, drops a few into his mouth, brushes a husk from his tie, and jerks a thumb toward a sign on the wall...