Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood thus restored, the trouble spots got engulfed in the pageantry. The two statesmen rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside...
...Sacre du Printemps, explaining that it touched off a "musical revolution five years before your own revolution-music has never been the same since." Each time the audience cheered its approval, and later, at a birthday party given by Russian officials, Lenny was showered with congratulations for his triumph...
...call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic philosophy lies in the final triumph of the Magnetic Health Theater: the artist suffers, but art endures...
...great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...
...miles of travels had seen and been seen by more Canadians than any. other reigning sovereign in history, gave gracious thanks for her welcome and flew home across the Atlantic by Comet jet. Her long, sometimes too arduous tour was more a personal success than a triumph of monarchy in highly independent, increasingly nationalistic Canada. Elizabeth's visit, both in her formal role, officiating with President Eisenhower at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada belongs as a vital and equal young partner...