Word: triumphalism
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Last week Joni James was back in Chicago for a triumphal stage appearance at the Chicago Theater. The audience cheered when she swept out in a floor-length, white-beaded number and bounced through a happy performance of Gee, but It's Great to Be Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses...
...surviving pictures few and brilliant. The most notable quality in his paintings is their daylight luminosity. Van Leyden was a child prodigy, a master of his craft at twelve. At 33, six years before he died, he was rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists of each town he visited...
Time's editor notes that, "The most notable quality in his (Van Leyden's) paintings is their daylight luminosity." They describe the painter at 33 as "rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists...
Back in the U.S., he worked for the Navy as a lawyer, terminating war contracts. During one tour of duty in New York, he watched Dwight Eisenhower's triumphal victory parade, without an inkling that he, an obscure lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, would a few years later be campaigning at the general's side...
Then the final announcement, from "Radio Station WRRB now leaves the air" to "signing off for . . . on controls, and the entire staff of Radio Radcliffe." She gives the time; signals to her control girl. Again the triumphal march goes over the air; this time the whole march is played, the only time a theme is played in full at Radio Radcliffe. Then the control board is switched off till 7:28:40 the next night...