Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European prototype never had. In Europe the provinces were provinces by virtue of conquest or because a single city-be it Paris, Rome or London-so dominated an entire nation that the outlanders were automatically relegated to inferior status. The U.S. was founded by a bunch of provincials-and triumphant ones at that...
MOZART: EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (Seraphim). Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in a performance that has become a collector's item in the years since it was first released in 1954. Her hallelujahs are triumphant in the Mozart motet and then shower forth brilliantly again in the Bach cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen...
John Kennedy, Salinger recalls, was at first irked by Jacqueline's ambitious and ultimately triumphant campaign to refurbish the White House in a style consonant with its symbolic and historic stature. He was particularly upset by his wife's redecoration of the family dining room, which he used for breakfast meetings with congressional leaders. At one of the first sessions in the restored room, chunky Larry O'Brien, Kennedy's chief congressional liaison man (and now Postmaster General), plunked down on a delicate antique chair-and crashed to the floor. "It's a good thing...
...them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...
...studies of what it takes to be a first-rate ruler is Shakespeare's set of four plays comprising Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV, and Henry V. The dramatist here presents and analyses the many reasons for the failure of the first two monarchs and the triumphant success of the third...