Word: glittering
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...numerous alumni complain that an editor must be psychic himself to work for a psychic boss. Serenely stroking her nine gold bracelets, thrice-married Eileen Garrett says sweetly: "I've never had anything but a neurotic editor until this very moment. You know," she adds with a glitter, "the number of phonies you meet in this town...
...Salzburg's first full-blown festival since 1937; last year's was a worthy try, but dismal. This year nostalgic Austrians hoped to recapture the pomp and glitter of pre-Anschluss Salzburg; what they got, judging by last week's opening performances, was a reasonable facsimile...
Sugar Candy. Britain finds herself today between two great competitors, both of whom, in their different ways, keep a sharp edge on the motives that lead to action. In the United States, glittering prizes have always been offered to the ambitious, and they glitter no less today. . . . The difference in welfare between employment and unemployment, between success and failure, is still unmistakably sharp. . . . The Soviet economy made an original attempt to do without incentives or sanctions, but it has long ago reintroduced them. . . . Nowhere, certainly, are the penalties of incompetence or laziness more sharp. Both the Russian and the American...
...Play Cards? The Austrians like the Americans well enough. Viennese, who have good-naturedly renamed jeeps Schlampenschlepper (hussy buggies), fraternize with zest. But Austrians live in an old, proud civilization, still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...
Churchill was not the man to turn away from that challenge. The Waldorf's glitter disclosed the same enthusiastic fighter which the House of Commons' gloom and dust had known for 45 years...