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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...