Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spellman lost a measure of power with the death of Pius XII, and his conservative theology and sometimes rigid ways set him apart somewhat from the new church. Yet he enjoyed his greatest triumph when he played host to Pope Paul VI in 1965-the first time that any Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including...
Throughout the play, letters, money, and clothing are destroyed, thrown carelessly on the stage where pieces remain for the duration of an act, becoming part of Fisk's legacy. Fisk reacts to his first financial triumph by destroying his Jersey City hotel room. The scene is reminiscent of Charles Foster Kane destroying his wife's room when she leaves him. But in Welles's film, Kane's sole object is the furniture; in Prince Erie, the finite playing area itself cramps Fisk, and he becomes undisciplined energy trying, I suspect, to break the walls down, also Jersey City, anything that...
...play of some importance which approaches greatness. Its color and spectacle, energy and incredible humor, give the Loeb a kind of total theatre it rarely sees. Without attempting to offer up Prince Erie as an object lesson to aspiring Harvard theatremakers, it should just be said that Mayer's triumph is probably the best thing that's happened around this place in years...
...first time in eight games, but not even the most optimistic fan dreamed the Crimson would humble the B.U. defense with eight gorgeous goals. Boston College on Saturday should prove as tough an opponent, and Cornell on the 18th could be even rougher; but last night's triumph changed the 1967-68 Harvard team from a dark horse to a front runner...
...kind of temple to youth, manhood, generosity. The simple emotion of the old fighting-time came back to him, and the monument around him seemed an embodiment of that memory; it arched over friends as well as enemies, the victims of defeat as well as the sons of triumph...