Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed, and the assassin's bullet cut it short before it was completed. But he, too, was a hero to himself. Visibly and with eloquence, he embodied the hope of a new start. His looks and his style, the glamour of his wife and his clan permanently enshrined him as the most romantic of U.S. Presidents...
...NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...
...scare tactics keep the boys on their toes, and in the end, they make beautiful music together, pouring out the big, lush organ-like sound that is the maestro's trademark. While Stokowski's days as the glamour boy of the podium are behind him, the long slender hands still dance like birds when he conducts, the silver mane still shakes in splendid disarray, the great craggy profile still sparks a response. And as always, he still juggles the orchestra's seating arrangements to gain special effects, still edits Beethoven and Brahms to suit his own taste...
Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...
...general practitioners for every specialist in 1945, but today only one doctor in three is a G.P. According to the most recent figures, only 18% of the U.S.'s 8,000 fourth-year medical students professed an intention to become general practitioners. This reluctance is caused by the glamour attached to specialization and by the knowledge that G.P.s work longer hours and usually cannot allow themselves long vacations, but it has no economic base: G.P.s make as much as or more than internists or pediatricians...