Word: clat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Averaging about two minutes a floor, George Willig, 27, climbed steadily up the northeast corner of the great south tower. He moved with a touch of éclat and a forthright manner that clearly indicated he knew what he was doing. An experienced mountain climber, Willig had been planning his adventure for a year. He had punctiliously taken a day of leave from his job as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corp., and was utterly confident that he would make it to the top of his own private Everest...
...retaliation, U.S. presidential hopefuls may be tempted to emulate France's Nicolas Chauvin and cry a pox on all alien coinages. Admittedly many of these words and phrases are silly, frilly, misused and mispronounced by Yanks; they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue that makes him élite...
...avoid that danger, political wives are carving out lives or careers of their own. Says Marion Javits, who has managed to do so with considerable éclat: "The wife who accompanies the man who shakes the hands knows what 'impersonal' means best of all. She is completely left out ... You become part of your husband's audience. Although the ego of people in public life doesn't quite equal that of Orson Welles, who is supposed to have wanted applause when he climbed out of the bathtub, it is there...
...stage producer, Alex Cohen has some prestigious credits (Home, The Homecoming) and some egregious flops (the most recent, the musical Prettybelle, closed in Boston this month). But, as the Tony show producer for the past four years, Cohen has achieved such éclat that Archrival David Merrick mischievously made a bid to take over the assignment-without a fee. The group that administers the awards rejected Merrick's offer and gave Cohen a new five-year contract...