Word: grander
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about...
...hour episode in January. Patriarch Jock (Jim Davis) will reveal that Ranch Foreman Ray Krebs (Steve Kanaly) is his illegitimate son. As for Kristin, she is on her way to the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing. And she may yet return to the Ewing spread with new and grander plans. Bobby is still infuriatingly faithful to his wife; and Sue Ellen might take one drink too many...
...keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage, a U.S. Marine exulted: "I never want to have a grander feeling or I'd just naturally...
...little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...report, in sum, portrays a growing industry that eventually will be looking for markets abroad but that is in need of equipment and technology. There could be good opportunities for foreign involvement, but Silin's realistic assessment of the difficulties China faces has doubtless dampened some of the grander illusions about a vast and voracious new Chinese market just coming in sight...