Word: glamoured
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...library of 45,000 books, 10,000 scores and 25,000 phonograph records. Their productions are not surpassed in more than half a dozen opera houses in the country. But even at that, Bain thinks of his Opera Theater as Macy's thinks of its Broadway windows: the glamour of the opera is only a lure to attract students to the business of learning music. When 948 music school graduates let the music school know what had become of them last year, it was no disappointment to Bain that only 57 were professional musicians. Of the other...
...gardens, letting ourselves in and out of the park keeper's shed to make a cup of tea"-but "criminal boys" lost their prestige to "romantic boys," and the romantics all formed rock groups. The local fish and chips joint, "the chippy on the turf," lost its glamour-everybody wanted to go home to listen to Elvis records. Meetings and war councils were delayed so the fellows could catch the rock show on the telly...
...Barry Goldwater and Governor Nelson Rockefeller." But in the same city, the Detroit Free Press took quite an opposite view. "Here he is again," said the Free Press's political columnist, Judd Arnett, "the most successful political failure of our times, a sort of Harold Stassen with glamour, riding on a wave of publicity as the result of an epidemic of late-winter madness among the snowbound burghers of New Hampshire. They must have voted for Henry Cabot for kicks...
...many executives to make fortunes beyond their salaries. Like a warrant or a "call," the option is a device that enables a man to buy stock at a fixed price long after the shares have risen above that price. Last week's tax bill removes some of the glamour from the stock option, but will not easily stop the growth of an incentive that is now used by two-thirds of the nation's public companies...
...hilltop where Charlie Chaplin's castle and tennis court once stood in lonely splendor. The city is home to a new sort of populace-an ever-thrusting band of upper-middle-classmen, walking bank accounts without names who are determined to live up to the legacy of glamour. They are concerned not with style but with status...