Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lavish Cafeteria. Against a "nearer background," Van Dusen follows the subsequent course of education in the U.S. Originally, he points out, "the church was the parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
...Riviera (20th Century-Fox) is that rare Hollywood accomplishment, a cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...
...financial failure of "The Gypsy Baron" was attributed largely to Harvard's indifference to opera in general and Strauss in particular. But the failure was due not only to community apathy to the unsophisticated Strauss; it was also due to an attempt at lavish production which had only unpolished results. Polyna Stoska did not draw her money's worth. "The Gypsy Baron" was fun, but it was still the Adams House Musical Society, this time all dressed...
This last point will have suggested a further noticeable difference between cricket and baseball--the sixes of the scores. In inter-country cricket (equivalent to major league baseball) an average score would be, say, 580 to 517. In order to have time to do all this lavish scoring, the teams are obliged to play three-day matches, six hours a day (not counting the tea interval and pauses for the inevitable English rain showers...
Internal Revenue agents seized the lavish San Fernando Valley ranch belonging to Cinemactress Veronica Lake and her director husband Andre De Toth, gave them 20 days to settle a $62,000 back income-tax bill or see the property sold at auction...