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...stretches 451 ft. from front door to rear window-as long as a 47-story building is high. The gracefully arching fagade, soaring 96 ft. in cathedral-like splendor between the glass-and-marble rectangles of the New York State Theater and Philharmonic Hall, dominates the surrounding plaza like a queen among princesses. It is a fittingly magnificent capstone to Lincoln Center: the world's largest opera house set in the world's largest cultural complex. It is, moreover, a fitting memorial to an enduring art, for it symbolizes, if not a resurgence of opera (for opera...
...university professors are likely to be already en route to the airport with their luggage. Carrying a wad of traveler's checks courtesy of some big foundation or Government agency, today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...
...believe that as much as one-tenth of a supernova's total mass is blown out at speeds approaching that of light, and enters the earth's atmosphere as cosmic rays. A second wave of slower radiation and burning gases causes the supernova to shine with prodigal splendor for weeks or even years until the star's remains gradually fade...
...prime, nothing better epitomized travel in the age for which it was named than the Twentieth Century Limited. A 1902 passenger once declared that it made New York and Chicago practically suburbs of each other. It did so with an all-Pullman splendor that offered both fresh-and saltwater baths, barbers and a library. Soprano Nellie Melba, the Armours, the Swifts and Teddy Roosevelt rode the train, and oldtime waiters recall that early-rising Herbert Hoover was invariably first up for breakfast. But in recent years, ordinary coaches had to be added to match the fare ($43) at which jets...
...says Columnist Ann Landers, 48. "Today, I don't think in terms of myself but rather how I can be part of something bigger and better." She echoes G. B. Shaw's creed: "Happiness, a paltry goal. The thing is to be used, spent, squandered in the splendor of one of life's consuming causes...