Word: splendor
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...ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic dogs, equal in intelligence to humans. Below the surface, in cavernous air-raid shelters, are the remains of Middle America, existing in ante-bellum middle class splendor. Ellison's novella, and the film, focus on the adventures of a young solo named Vic and his telepathic dog in this topsy-turvy world...
Judgment Day arrives on Saturday and for those few who braved the night the Gates of Fenway will embrace them in all their splendor...
Harvard does have excellent facilities in two areas, crew and squash. The Harvard crew rows out of Newell Boathouse. Built around the 1890s, the Victorian-style edifice has lost much of its aristocratic splendor, although a semblance of its former elegance is still discernible...
...that had true epic range and that, in its bounce and snappy tempos, was refreshingly free of sanctification. Would that the Met had a chorus of such power and, rarity of rarities, group acting ability. The sets were eye-catching tableaux embodying a sturdy Russian medievalism overlaid with Byzantine splendor...
...boldly sought to "clarify the basic issues and widen the circle of discussion about them." An offshoot of the Fund for the Republic, an organization dedicated to defending civil liberties, the center was organized by Robert Hutchins, iconoclastic former president of the University of Chicago. Amidst the seaside splendor of a 43-acre Mediterranean-style estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., the center's scholars pursued Hutchins' formidable goal. An average of three mornings a week, the chimes of a Benedictine bell summoned them forth to a marble-floored edifice for "dialogues" on weighty issues-many of which eventually...