Word: splendorful
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...reception that France gave Peru's visiting President Manuel Prado y Ugar-teche last week lived up in every aspect of official warmth and splendor to that given President Eisenhower last December. Bunting in Peruvian red and white floated from every government building, crowds cheered Prado in the streets, a 101-gun salute honored him at the Foreign Ministry. To the Parisian in the street, who did not necessarily know who Prado is, it may have seemed an outsize greeting, but beneath the hoopla was a serious, meaningful gesture, and back of it was Charles de Gaulle...
...Devil and Tom Walker,* by John Quidor, shows the same ambivalence, perhaps drawn from the well-pruned splendor of English romantic poetry on the one hand and the wild reality of the American wilderness on the other. An illustrator of genius, Quidor was a friend and admirer of Washington Irving, and his best paintings are based on incidents from Irving's tales. But he found few customers, painted decorative designs on fire engines for a living...
Meeting of Left & Right. Is all this surrealistic? Not exactly. The surrealists startled the world in the 1930s with part sexual and part malicious images jigsawed into dreamlike arrangements. The new Dali is out not to shock but to seduce; he subordinates all symbols to pictorial splendor. And, like James Joyce in literature, he delights in demonstrating his utter mastery of varying techniques and styles. "Eet ees interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes...
...main hall opposite the broad winding stairway held Rodin's mighty and miserable Adam, an 8-ft.-high study in human splendor and spiritual loss. Opposite him, Maillol's Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...
...setting came right out of the great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs in kaffiyehs, Indians in business suits, suntanned white settlers, a handful of Africans. From the street outside sounded the martial music of a passing detachment of Coldstream Guards...