Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Practice these obstacles spelled "studies" and "recommendations" handed down with little eclat from an ivory tower visible to the eyes of a handful of men. With the possible exceptions of '26 and the three-year spurt capped by Langdon Marvin in 1940, few Councils made themselves known to their constituents...
...time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...Bartok was no artificer. He stood for all that was original and individual in music, all that was sincere and direct. . . . He wrote not for the public's hunger for sensualism and eclat. He wrote for himself, to satisfy an inner urge which said he must compose...