Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...
...Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
...case in which the Constitution is kept; the other fitted a small urn containing the mortal remains of the Great Liberator, Simón Bolivar. Gallegos, deeply moved, pledged a democratic government, promised that all parties would be "allowed an open eye and a loose tongue." Despite all the glitter and gold braid, the ceremony was simple and moving...
Humorous Tory. Strunsky's favorite topic was his beloved New York City, although he led a secluded life away from its glitter. He was forever holding up fashionable cliches to good-humored examination, asking himself (and his readers) "Is that so?" He would attack the steamrollers that seemed to be flattening originality out of American life. But in the next sentence, he would profess his faith in the ability of Americans to go their individual ways. Two Came to Town, the last of his eleven books, was one such affirmation...
...Purcell's Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...