Word: splendorful
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...Fourth of July came again to Harvard, and moved on past in patriotic splendor, leaving in its wake no missing fingers, no powder-burned eyelids, no mangled remains of light-hearted auto drivers...
...painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following the best models." Only in the last dozen years have Westerners appreciated the splendor of Holy Russia's painting. It was the Soviet Government, despoiler of churches, which fostered that appreciation-and last week's show was thus indirectly, though in no sense officially, indebted to the U.S.S.R...
...this form before or since, but yet cast it all in good sonata form. He might be said to have transcended mere structure to have given structure its highest significance. As a matter of fact, when faced with the originality of the ideas in the Ninth and the splendor of their execution, discussions of "form" tend to become meaningless. Only in the case of such composers as Bruckner or Mahler who try to imitate the Ninth and fail through lack of sustained inspiration, do you begin to worry about form, and notice how the composer has to prop...
...Singapore] is as strongly fortified as Gibraltar. . . . It will play a great role when the inevitable clash between the East and the West finally takes place. In anticipation of that event, it maintains a set of barrooms, the splendor of which is famous all over the Orient...
radio, as of 1942: "It represents perhaps a sort of democratic splendor, a trifle clouded." The splendor, to Landry, is in radio's multiplicity, fertility, and progress in educating advertisers "not to abuse the privilege of addressing the masses in their parlor."* In this splendor he also finds considerable mystery, as in the apparent passivity of the clergy toward a daytime serial called Light of the World-a breezy job on Holy Writ. ("Don't tell me again what the serpent said," shouts Adam at the dinner table, "I'm tired of hearing about...