Word: beauteous
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...Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, the character Miranda’s exclamation, “O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!” is widely regarded as proof of her naiveté. I, however, today on Class Day, cannot help but echo her words. Here, the more that I’ve learned, and the more that I’ve lived, the more that I’m left in wonder at the interconnectedness of things, and the beauty...
...what was surely the best espionage novel of the '90s, Robert Harris imagined a brilliant mathematician, Tom Jericho (played in the movie adaptation by Dougray Scott), who is driven to a nervous breakdown by a failed love affair with the beauteous Claire (Saffron Burrows). Nevertheless, a shaky Tom must return to work against an urgent deadline: if the Bletchley crowd can't crack the code within a few days, a huge convoy will be wiped...
...horse town in the middle of nowhere. Even I, who had never been there, knew the place was a crushing bore: no ice-cream parlors (the preferred hangouts of early-80s Indian teens), no good record stores and - this was the killer - no girls' schools famous for beauteous babes. We moaned about it the entire five-hour bus ride to Calicut and spent much of the return trip making derisive comments about the place. I have no recollection of the match itself. But I know the town lived up to its reputation...