Word: splendorful
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Scattered on the floor like driftwood on a beach were inlaid sideboards, china cupboards and end tables. Marble busts stood in dusty splendor on all the tables and desks; mirrors leaned at odd angles against the walls. Art and antique magazines, cardboard cartons and discarded papers littered the room. The scene of this disarray was not Ye Olde Antique Shoppe, but the paneled office of White House Curator Mrs. James N. Pearce, head huntress for Jackie Kennedy in her campaign to turn the White House into a treasure trove of Early Americana...
...Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to the grey marble Chair of St. Augustine,† on which each Archbishop of Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that...
...Cesti," wrote the Neapolitan landscape painter Salvator Rosa, "is the glory and splendor of the secular scene...
...Young & the Old. At their best, the bejeweled objects have a kind of glittering splendor, though they are mostly gaudy and garish. Art aside, they have a haunting eloquence that speaks of centuries of death and torture. They came from loot and levy, from wars that saw men and women massacred by the thousands, and boys and girls swept off to slavery. As the Turkish Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families...
...scene was 17th century Italy, and Composer Pietro Cesti (1623-69), otherwise known as Father Antonio, contributed to its splendor in flamboyant fashion. Renowned for his unfriarly frolics (a partiality toward wine and the wives of his benefactors), he was unfrocked* and dismissed from the court of the Medici in Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan...