Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books to be talked about will be varied likewise. Instead of being laid out under imposing categories, as before (History, Poetry and Philosophy, Fiction, etc.), they compose a fluid series with a little more contemporary glitter. This Sunday Historian Allan Nevins will have a chance to link up Herodotus' History (of how the Greeks stood off the Persians) with World War II. On Dec. 14 a classic of conservatism, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, will be taken up along with a classic of revolution, Tom Paine's The Rights...
...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
Personally, Professor Sorokin is as pleasant and charming an egoist as it is possible to find at Harvard, home of many successful men. His eyes, behind steel-rimmed glasses, glitter smilingly with every word he utters. Some people who take his courses groan that they can't understand a word he says. A little judicious listening, coupled with the immunity gained after a few of his lectures, should fix that. Short, boyishly cut gray hair, a rapid and brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with...
...benefit of those who are interested, I repeat here Rachmaninoff's Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
...extremes, approaches "tear-dropping" in some cars. But many car buyers will look twice to make sure they are not at last year's show. Most radiator grilles, hoods, fenders and tops are little changed. Externally, the biggest change is a superabundance of "gingerbread." The new cars glitter with chromium, nickel, even golden bronze...