Word: glimmerous
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...first place, the symphony had practically no structure or coherence, nor did it make up for this with strong melody or color. The themes were commonplace and thinly stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
...Glimmer for Glamor. Because the clothes of movie actresses are the most widely imitated by U.S. women, the Screen Actors Guild urged more stars to set a thrifty wartime style by dropping glamor for the duration. Actresses were asked to wear cotton, to stick to the standardized WPB silhouettes, to go without hairpins, zippers and metal jewelry...
...world knows that Hitler's European New Order is failing. It will be a long time before the world knows how Japan's New Order will fare in Asia, for the Japanese have a genius for suppression. But by last week two facts began to glimmer through the huggermugger murk: 1) the Japanese were stealing everything in sight; 2) they were treating prisoners surprisingly well...
...estimated that 40,000 people died of hunger in Athens and Peiraeus between last Oct. 1 and Jan. 26. But last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent...
...enemies of the Axis had one little glimmer of consolation in last week's abysm. Hitler was late...