Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is triumphant," Sonbert said of the fragmentary elements of montage. Instead, a film's aim is to keep a "constant balance" between its scenes so that a marriage scene may be followed by a funeral. The audience may laugh when the image of a child appears on the screen, but the "laughter is a little bit qualified" by a following image of an ambulance or burning car, Sonbert said...
...this story in the chapter called "Triumphant Returns," Harvard Co-Captain David Berkoff completed yesterday at Blodgett Pool for the first time since his gold-medal performance in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, racing in the Crimson's dual meet against Cornell...
Nineteen sixty-eight was a knife blade that severed past from future, Then from Now: the Then of triumphant postwar American power in the world, the Then of the nation's illusions of innocence and virtue, from the more complicated Now that began when the U.S. saw that it was losing a war it should not have been fighting in the first place, when the huge tribe of the young revolted against the nation's elders and authority, and when the nation finished killing its heroes. The old Then meant an American exceptionalism, the divine dispensation that the nation thought...
...Paul Brown. He hired Bill Walsh in the 1960s to assist in coaching the new Cincinnati Bengals. When Walsh got his own command in San Francisco, reserve quarterback Sam Wyche followed along to tutor passers. Together Wyche and Walsh scouted and drafted Notre Dame's Joe Montana. In two triumphant Super Bowls, Montana has been the player of the game. Now he is the central figure in a third...
What this tale of triumphant personal policymaking leaves out is the fact that it could have occurred only in a vacuum. Richard Nixon had little interest in domestic affairs; the country, he once told Teddy White, "could run itself." Under a President as concerned with social issues as with the Sino-Soviet balance of power, all the holdovers in the world would have had little effect...