Word: glamourizer
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...life of New York will be short. Cain was the father of urbanism,* and Cain is still murdering his brother. Like a little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...
...been in office." Tory and Socialist alike, speaker after speaker rose to congratulate Eden on his speech and his Geneva mission, to deplore the U.S. refusal to recognize Communist China, to urge the government to continue its independence of U.S. policy. Sir Robert Boothby, the Tories' TV glamour boy, passed his judgment on Eden at Geneva: "I know of no comparable diplomatic achievement during the past 25 years." Opposition Leader Clement Attlee declared that the "most notable" thing about Geneva was the European debut of the "real rulers" of China, and the "most important" thing the "contact" established with...
...Angeles Mrs. Mildred Younger, 33, the "glamour girl" of the 1952 G.O.P...
...opposite reasons. With the exception of Punch (see cut), no public voice has been raised against his policies. Even the far left New Statesman and Nation has hailed him as "the new darling of the Labor Left." Eden obviously relishes his role in Geneva, delights in recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take tea with Chou En-lai and dine with Molotov...
...Hoover Dam, Harry Morrison put together the famed Six Companies, Inc.,-and contributed $500,000 as his share of the $5,000,000 capital. Looking back, he cannot help thinking that every dam since Hoover has been an anticlimax. "It's the glamour dam," he says wistfully. "I still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great...