Word: splendor
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...oleander pink originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...
...long lines of soldiers marched solemnly past the gold-spired Grand Palace in Bangkok last week. With them came a single flutist playing Phya Sok (Great Sadness). One year after her death at the age of 79, Thailand's Queen Rambhai Barni took her last earthly journey in dignified splendor. Granddaughter of King Rama IV, the Thai monarch romanticized in The King and I, she was the wife of Thailand's last absolute ruler, before a coup installed a constitutional monarchy in 1932. The Queen's remains were borne on the traditional 40-ton, gilded teakwood chariot to an ornate...
...percent of the population which is Black shares 13 percent of the nation's worst land, while the whites live in a splendor J.R. Ewing's family would appreciate. The government has "relocated" over 3 million Blacks by ripping them out of their homes and dumping them on to Bantustans, the restrictive homelands which double as cultural prisons. And since we started school in September, South Africa's police forces have gunned down more than 240 Blacks, arrested 3000 more, and waded into peaceful demonstrations of elementary school children with swinging billy clubs, electric shock batons, and tear...
...center, telling them how to play." His businesslike podium manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that was the joy of his adopted city and the despair of orchestras everywhere else...
What prospect, then, do Quad students have that their homes will ever match the physical splendor enjoyed by River residents? College officials in the know say they sincerely want to translate months of architectural planning into a transformed Quad. Residents there, citing years of perceived neglect by College officials, are still waiting to see the bulldozers. Harvard fundraisers may hold the key this spring to how quickly renovations start...