Word: triumphant
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Senators adjourned to rest their frayed nerves, prepare for this week's drive to finish their long-delayed job of buttressing the voting rights of Negroes. So sure of victory was Majority Leader Johnson that he began practicing on office visitors a triumphant address celebrating the final vote...
...iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
...Triumphant Moment. In tribute to its great baritone, the Met last week opened a performance of The Flying Dutchman the day after his death with the prelude to Act IV of Traviata. Earlier in the week Warren himself had supplied an even more fitting tribute when he appeared in a new production of Simon Boccanegra, in which he had made his little-noticed debut 21 years ago. Last week's revival (the first in a decade) benefited from some magnificently colorful sets, the muscular conducting of Dimitri Mitropoulos and fine performances from most of the cast. But the opera...
...four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person." The peak of Shute's engineering career was his work on the airship R. 100, in which he made a triumphant transatlantic crossing to Canada and back in 1930. Short weeks later, an ill-fated sister ship, the R. 101, crashed and burned. Shute chalked the tragedy up to bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married, he found himself jobless. Shute corralled...
...analyses of such literary greats as Emily Dickinson, Poe, T. S. Eliot, Dostoevsky and John Donne. But Tate's concern is with life as well as literature, and his theme is the "deep illness of the modern mind." The villain, says Tate, was French Philosopher Rene Descartes, whose triumphant discovery of at least one ultimate certainty ("I think, therefore I am") is responsible for dividing man against himself by isolating thought from total being. Today's battle is waged "between the dehumanized society of secularism, which imitates Descartes' mechanical nature, and the eternal society of the communion...