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Nostalgia & Splendor. Thus Korea brought MacArthur's military career to a dramatic but unhappy end. Named board chairman of Remington Rand Inc. (now the Sperry Rand Corp.), he lived in lonely splendor high in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. He made a nostalgic trip back to the Philippines three years ago, attended Arthur's 1961 graduation from Columbia University, otherwise rarely appeared in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: MacArthur | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...that the sound of the rain will wake some lovers, and that its sound will seem to be a part of that force that has thrust them into one another's arms. Then I sit up in bed and exclaim aloud to myself, 'Valor! Love! Virtue! Compassion! Splendor! Kindness! Wisdom! Beauty!' The words seem to have the colors of the earth, and as I recite them I feel my hopefulness mount until I am contented and at peace with the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE METAMORPHOSES OF JOHN CHEEVER | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Today it may be that I am more aware of and impressed by the splendor of the great plumbing network of the whole University and by its importance for safeguarding sanitation than I am perhaps by personnel. But fortunately there is no need to set the two against each other. They both belong: together they make Harvard plumbing...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: The Age of the Plumber | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

...staging a concert reading of Tamburlaine, Seltzer robbed himself of the visual splendor and seemed to sentence his audiences to a few hours of exposure to almost constant shouting. But heavy cutting of Marlowe's lines, some clever technical effects, and a splendid reading by David Stone as Tamburlaine almost make this production first-rate theatre...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Tamburlaine | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...their estates were sold or razed, divided and subdivided into expensive housing developments. Now the landscape looks like a Monopoly board toward the end of a hot game. Half a dozen houses now share the hilltop where Charlie Chaplin's castle and tennis court once stood in lonely splendor. The city is home to a new sort of populace-an ever-thrusting band of upper-middle-classmen, walking bank accounts without names who are determined to live up to the legacy of glamour. They are concerned not with style but with status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suburbs: Middle-Aged Myth | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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