Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev, pudgy, hard-drinking son of Ukrainian peasantry, became dictator of Russia last week, grinning and triumphant after carrying out the most sweeping purge of top-level Kremlin Communists in almost 20 years...
...Please, Maman," he said to his foster mother when she returned triumphant from court, "what's going to happen...
...written words as an art in itself, deciphering the seals, analyzing the brushwork and drawing. But, essentially, each work reflects one great central theme. For well over a thousand years Chinese painters have been primarily concerned not with the works of man but with nature; their most triumphant subject has been landscape...
...Alley makes a brave try, and at intermission still has something of a chance. After that, things go rather un-brokenly downhill; and only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt...
Underneath the story of the gentle, Christ-like Cathleen, Yeats suggests morals, and points to open questions, usually on the level of simplicity and common sense. Famine, for example, is clearly a great road away from religion. Devils are often triumphant in the material world; they pay. Moreover, they can even pay with Cathleen's--and through her, God's--money...