Word: splendorful
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...developer and scion of one of the country's most prominent families; both for the first time; in Sarrat, the Philippines. Bitterly disappointed by the 1981 U.S. marriage of their daughter Imee, 27, to a divorced man, the Marcoses compensated this time by laying on the pomp and splendor. Under Imelda's flamboyant direction, an estimated $1.3 million, some of it government funds, was spent on items such as speeding historic restoration work on the northern Luzon city of Sarrat, birthplace of the bride's father; building four "people's halls" in the Sarrat area...
Consider, for instance, a passage from one of the newest additions to the canon of Harvard literature--Splendor and Misery by Faye Levine '65. The scene is 1963, in a Lowell House room, where Levine's protagonist Sarah is taking advantage of the parietal rules' provision for afternoon visiting hours. Levine notes that Sarah's boy friend has given her a copy of the Kama Sutra and she describes the consequences...
...reader can well imagine Levine deriving her literary equation for Splendor and Misery in much the same fashion and, in the end, her prescription bears a likeness to Segal's. In fact, her book resembles that other Harvard novel on another, more basic, level Love Story is not a good book either...
...Splendor and Misery does successfully convey some of the turbulence of the early 60's, particularly the emergence of a large-scale drug culture and the sexual revolution. But ultimately even these attempts at verisimilitude fall flat, and the contrived historical references rest on the pages like so many sore thumbs. Levine introduces some world events by abruptly creating new characters. Others she simply deposits in the middle of the text, as in the one-sentence chapter announcing Ted Kennedy's election to the Senate...
...ambiguous, often pretentious, and (still more often) inane jumble of Harvard trivia, the diary of any student at the College would be at least as insightful. Those seeking to capture, or recapture, "the Harvard experience: are advised to invent their own Crimson ties aside, veritas must prevail Splendor and Misery is entirely the latter...