Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty and the Devil does, however, occasionally stumble. Toward the end, for example, the light vein is momentarily broken by Faust's sudden philosophic despair. ("The poorest beggar at least owns his own soul," he complains to his lover.) Nevertheless, the picture, enlivened by Leon Barsacq's lavish sets, is a distinct triumph of French joie de vivre over the sombre morality of previous Faust legends...
...other undergraduate divisions, architecture, hotel administration--with a lavish Statler hotel on campus in which to practice--and the state-supported Home Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations schools, all have relatively small student bodies...
Next day the Britons gawked at a lavish agricultural exhibit, where Bevan peered dourly at the gilt-and-gingerbread buildings, commenting: "Pure Victorian. All show. This is the Victorian age of Russia. An immense show of wealth, concealing poverty. The landau at the door, the servants in the attic." At lunch there were long silences between toasts, broken at last by Attlee, who abruptly asked: "How do you get your milk in Moscow?" The Russians told them, in a laborious hum of translation, broken by the clear, social-worker voice of Dr. Edith: "I'm not interested in yield...
...brusque official decrees that cut Paulino down were shock enough for the readers of Trujillo's house-organ daily, El Caribe, which always before had only lavish praise (Paulino had been the paper's publisher). Going on from there in editorials El Caribe gave some details on just how the "truculent, ambitious and aggressive ex-functionary," the "bad collaborator of the Chief," had come to grief...
...have been too lavish with our bil lions and too sparing of our brains. Europeans now accept our aid as nothing more than their due, as they cut down on their own efforts, including military service. We should reduce drastically our foreign establishments, drop our giveaway programs and use some of the taxpayers' money thus saved to make the U.S. as impregnable as possible...