Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unperverted demands of the body." The authors admit that there is nothing new in this prescription. But. they say, the world needs a new spirit of evangelism to spread this gospel and make it work. "It will be," they suggest, "the enviable task of the future to reconcile the glamour of modern life with the ancestral wisdom of the happy savage...
When Novelist John Hersey (Yale '36) wrote his 15-year class report (TIME, Sept. 8), he proved one thing about Yalemen: they are successful often to the point of glamour. But what about their wives? To answer that question, the Yale Alumni Magazine commissioned Agnes Rogers, an editor of the Reader's Digest and wife of Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen* of Harper's Magazine, to dip into the record of the class of '37. Last week, Editor Rogers submitted her report: Mrs. Yale, she found, looks less glamorous in statistics, but she has seen...
...young ballet dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide in World War I London. As she rises to success with his help, he sinks to the bottom. At the fadeout, the white-haired clown dies in the wings of a theater while the dancer he has befriended whirls onstage in "the glamour of limelight from which age must pass as youth enters...
Moss Hart remembers that "she had, in a true sense, glamour. She had more of it than anyone else." Her range as an actress was extraordinary. She could be gay, sad, witty, tragic, funny, touching. She was as capable of fine subtlety as of noisy overemphasis. She was, according to Coward, "barely pretty," but she "appropriated beauty to herself . . . along with all the tricks and mannerisms that go with it." Possibly the narrowest view of her talents was held by Gertrude herself: "I am not what you would call a wonderful dancer, but I am light on my feet...
Farouk's master bedroom was cold, ugly and boxlike, like a room in a cheap summer resort hotel. It was heaped high with a weird mixture of pornography, childishness and sentimentality-mild glamour shots like those advertising Chicago burlesque bars; Kodachrome nudes complete with pocket viewers; trick photographs that could be squeezed to make a fan dancer bump and grind There were also pictures of Queen Narriman as a bride. Near the royal stood two stacks of well-thumbed U.S. comics...