Word: glitterati
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...clubby spirit of the 40s or 50s has changed to what many perceive as jet-set elitism. Although they have always solicited work from any member of the Harvard community. Advocate editors have sometimes seemed like what editor Chris Caldwell '83 calls a "collection of cocaine snorting, cavalier, callous glitterati." As an arts magazine, the Advocate has appelned to the avant garde in some people, and thus scared others away...
...that they nobly serve who merely stand in waiting. But the friends perk up only when they realize that her tattletale bestseller is going to immerse them in autograph-seeking cocktail parties, late-night TV talk shows and curbside genuflections from the unwashed. At last, they too will be glitterati. -By T.E. Kalem
...Soviet embassy threw its annual celebration of the Revolution of 1917 a few days ago, and the glitterati of Washington swarmed in as usual to the stone box of a building that hunkers down on 16th Street. The vodka was good (Stolichnaya), the few dabs of caviar were superb (from the Volga River) and the guests from the diplomatic corps, Congress, White House and the city at large elbowed each other cheerfully in the chandeliered rooms on the second floor of the elaborate embassy where tsarist Russia set up shop...
...small measure of what's on the nation's collective mind is the cause that celebrities choose to back. Last week in New York City, the glitterati got together to help buy bulletproof vests for the city's police. The vests are needed-in the past twelve months, six officers have been shot to death in the line of duty-but the financially strapped city claims it cannot afford them...
Cocktail Houri. Bobbing and weaving about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross...