Word: glamourizer
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...Losing Glamour. The most active area of the economy remained car sales, which ended a record October and pushed ahead to establish yet another record in the number of cars sold per day in the first ten days in November-6.4% ahead of the same period in record 1955. But the signs were growing that the hot-selling compacts may be losing some of their glamour; despite the addition of four new brand names, they seemed stalled at 29.2% of the market. Ford's compacts, which had been accounting for 41% of company sales last June, were down...
Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with a crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixing... After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolff" even if it meant flunking out next semester...
Important are the delinquents, who, like the junior executives, take short cuts to glamour, and help staff "the integral whole of politics-and-rackets," thus forming an alliance against "the good boys who naively try to make something of themselves." Also in the room are the flunk-outs (the "ambivalently wished-for station of Bums"), the Beat Generation whose "onslaughts on the Air-Conditioned nightmare...sound very much like the griping of soldiers who do not intend to mutiny"), the Angry Young Men (who attack the machine itself), French "existential youth" (saying "no exit"), and finally, the hipster (who "contents...
There was a certain glamour about the Van Doren who tried to get away with it. Up to a point there was public sympathy, based on begrudged admiration for this daring young man who went along with the crooked rules of the game to make some cash. But when the bottom fell out, Van Doren was nothing more than immorality personified...
Since Eisenhower's brief visit, there has been no American at the U.N. to match the glamour or personal flamboyance of a Khrushchev, Macmillan, Nehru or Nkrumah. Secretary of State Christian Herter and U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth doggedly maintain the U.S. position in debates, but have shown little inclination for genial politicking in the Delegates Lounge. The U.S. aloofness was a deliberate and official policy. The argument: with the heavy agenda of the 15th General Assembly, the U.S. hoped to set a lofty example of hard work...