Word: glimmerings
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...afraid for America," Jungk writes in his last chapter, "afraid of its losing the best of itself, the esteem for freedom and humanity, in the struggle for nearly godlike omnipotence." Only at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton did he find a glimmer of hope. There someone told him: "All that you've seen in America ... is not what is to come but what is already passing." "So you don't think the future will be simply an intensification of this alarming present?" asked Jungk. "No," replied his mentor. "In spite of everything, there is hope...
...weak and half-hearted reversion to an old musical style and form and Mr. Bavicchi by an aggressive rejection of the ideals of melodic and textural beauty evolved in the subsequent history of this style. Such a rejection is of course not uncommon in contemporary music but some glimmer of compensation is expected in such cases. I saw none in Mr. Bavicchi's Sonata for Two Pianos. Passages of elementary and conventional sentimentality were occasionally introduced only to be brutally transformed into sequences of unrelenting harshness. Abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm marked no inventive richness; rather, they seemed indicative...
Even the works of the usually inimitable Updike have ceased to shine, and only glimmer fitfully through the morose aura which surrounds the magazine. This is probably the result of understandable fatigue, since this joker has been responsible for the bulk of the magazine's readable contents over a period of nearly two years...
...face, in the whole picture I see only one glimmer of light. The Liberal Union has invited the public to come to an illustrated lecture on sex given by a Lampoon men. I don't think anyone could expect anything more liberal than that. Stephen O. Saxe...
...With the glimmer of a Korean truce in the ofling, the Administration could walk into public acclaim and out of world leadership by turning its back on Asia. But in the new Dulles plan to send arms to Indo-China and earmark some of our French funds for use in that war, the free world can find assurance that the United States is not going to pack its bag and get out of Asia as soon as the truce is settled...