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Oceanwise, acording to Petterson, the Earth may be following the evolutionary pattern of Mars and Venus. Venus is still in a pre-oceanic stage, while Mark is a desert plant. "Our present oceanic splendor," he said, "may be a transient stage and the Earth may be on its way towards a complete dessication...
...stock. Now, "by request," Columbia has repressed them on LP. Few listeners will side with Debussy. Weingartner proves to be a tidy conductor indeed, but from these recordings, some made with the Vienna Philharmonic, some with the London Symphony, his chief characteristic seems to be mellow and spacious splendor...
...poetry had taken on a brooding tone, and Carlo's had become downright morbid: "I see death moving about in the room." One night in September of that year, Pia and her husband, the Sacchis and Sacchi's newest girl friend were all dining together in sophisticated splendor at the sumptuous Villa d'Este. "An ill wind is blowing for me tonight," murmured Sacchi darkly. Eying Sacchi's new girl, Pia asked a friend: "What...
...prescription and a characterization. The prescription: "A sufficiency, or rather, let us so name it, a glut, of love dealings, no matter whether they should turn out to be joyful or disastrous, will increase his power to write." The characterization: "All writers, even those who bask in the splendor of a 15th reprinting, remain mentally unbalanced." After a lifelong career blowing literary soap bubbles, Writer Cabell feels lucky to "sink, cackling thinly, into an amiable senescence...
...college hall. There was one condition: that half of the net income from rents was to "be used to provide scholarships for students who enter college with the intention of becoming ministers in the Protestant Episcopal Church." So, brick by brick, Matthews rose into Gothic splendor and became "the finest college dormitory in America...