Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving no doubt that he was talking about Alemán's lavish new University City (TIME, Feb. 23), built at a cost of more than $25 million in the Mexico City suburb of Pedregal de San Angel, Justice Corona snapped: "All that material grandeur is a mausoleum in which is buried the dignity of Mexico. Would to God that in its place we had a well-kept park with a floral sign saying the nation is still ashamed...
...short, 66-year-old Pastor Bechtel enjoys what are probably the most lavish and luxurious Presbyterian surroundings in the world. This week, of his own free will, he turned his back on it all. and set out for a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods, where he plans to spend the rest of his life...
Produced by John Houseman (who in 1937 put on a striking, modern-dress stage version of Julius Caesar with Orson Welles) and directed by Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz, this is a polished and lavish production. But, dedicated to the theory that the play's the thing, it does not stress pageantry for its own sake. Faithful in letter and spirit to the play, the movie has no "additional dialogue," and the cuts are mainly in the last third of the play, traditionally considered expendable on the stage...
...announcement has been made as yet concerning the details of the inaugural, but it is safe to predict that it will be held within the first two weeks of October, as a matter of tradition. Whether the new President's inauguration will more closely mirror President Lowell's lavish three day celebration, or President Conant's relatively austere 15 minute ceremony is anyone's guess...
...years later, Ashe finished the administration building, put up the lavish Student Club, built out over a man-made lake eight miles southwest of the center of Miami. With gifts from local citizens' groups and a few Manhattan millionaires, he built ultramodern classrooms and breezeways. He lined his walks with palm trees, planted flowering rubber bushes, poinsettia and bougainvillea. This year Miami's enrollment climbed to a total of 10,000 students...