Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion dollars, Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is now officially complete. This week the new Juilliard School, the last in the Center's complex of cultural institutions, celebrated its opening with a gala concert -by famous old grads-and a tour through its sumptuous new quarters...
...slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man's persimmon. In many ways, the Grand Kabuki is a Japanese persimmon on a U.S. theatergoer's palate. It is a sweet, sumptuous and strange new taste sensation with which to start the Broadway season...
Equally ascetic is Richard Russell, 71. The Georgia Democrat lives alone in a frugal one-bedroom apartment across from the sumptuous Watergate apartment-house complex. He breakfasts early at the Senate and works a twelve-hour day. A bachelor, Russell could dine at prestigious tables every night, but would rather go home to his favorite rocking chair. Says a friend: "Give him grits and a hamburger and he's happy...
...executives and family retainers. "The first cost to eliminate is the cost of management," they like to say. Then the Willots set production and sales goals for the next six months: unless they are met, the company is usually closed. Even then, such by-products of the acquisition as sumptuous Paris headquarters and storage facilities may still make their investment worthwhile...
Personally, most Greek shipping men scorn the sybaritic life, preferring to live in.a quietly sumptuous style. They shuttle among offices and residences in several countries, unnoticed except by their captains (whom they instruct to call them at any hour of the night if a problem arises). Lemos, for example, maintains his principal office in London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai...