Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...guests had been hating each other at a distance for some time-Pearson because of McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him. The action started before the entree, and it had a certain air of grandeur: in their line, Pearson & McCarthy are the two biggest billygoats in the onion patch, and when they began butting, all present knew history was being made...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...
From its comparatively humble beginning to its present grandeur and ideal situation, the school has occupied three sites; and has offered the best in educational facilities from the earliest practical training in "Midwifery" to the latest clinical practice methods in Psychoanalysis...
...Chinese are not a militaristic people and not many Chinese poets sing the glory and grandeur of war. Mao is one of those who does. Most of his verse has not been publicly printed, but in the three poems known to the West, he plucks harshly the blood & iron string. Sample lines...
...small legacy and enabling him to start work on his first important play, The Boy with a Cart, a pageant celebrating the 50th anniversary of a village church, and The Tower, another pageant, on the history of Tewkesbury Abbey. Both plays recalled the manner, if not the grandeur, of T. S. Eliot's religious pageant, The Rock; they also showed a humor and a lyricism that was Fry's own. Eliot himself was impressed by The Tower. Another pageant by Fry, Thursday's Child, was performed at Albert Hall, with Queen Mary in attendance...