Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role that she danced for the first time 27 years ago, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova last week at the Metropolitan Opera House showed why, at 49, she is the world's greatest ballerina. Even to an audience already keyed to a series of Bolshoi successes, the evening was a triumph-and Ulanova's performance a genuine masterpiece of the theater...
...even more notable triumph was Slonimsky's temporary resurrection of English Opera Composer Edward Maryon (The Prodigal Son, The Cycle of Life), who was believed by his own publishers to be dead until Slonimsky, after a futile appeal to Scotland Yard, discovered him alive in London (when he died in 1954, 87-year-old Composer Maryon left Slonimsky all his manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples...
...deserted streets of the spirit crept Stoicism and Epicureanism, cool in faith, cooler in comfort. Astrology was in vogue together with "archaism," an aping of the past for the sake of novelty. The death of Hellenism in the fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a "triumph of religion and barbarism," says Toynbee, taking issue with Gibbon. As Toynbee sees it, Christianity did not put the torch to the classic world; it lit one for it in the sightless dark...
After his very impressive triumph over Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn last Wednesday, Crimson captain Ned Weld experienced a severe let-down and lost in straight sets to Columbia's Lloyd Moglen and Cornell's Don Rubell. Other Crimson losses were absorbed Friday by Jorge Lemann and Saturday by Tim Gallway...
Momentum is a vital factor in any track meet. Often a smashing or unexpected individual victory early in the meet will inspire an entire team and start it on its way to an over-whelming triumph. Such was the case last Saturday in New Haven, where a fired-up Bulldog squad whipped the Crimson varsity by 24 points...