Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peter Domanig is an Austrian immigrant lad who comes to the U.S. at 17, just after World War I. (Author White has already covered his boyhood in a 1944 novel, Morning in Vienna.) Peter bypasses the glitter of New York in the '20s and an easy suburban life with an American foster father, and heads for smoky, industrial Pittsburgh to make his own way. From there on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up. conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop...
...Called tridco, it is one of the chief entertainments on the future earth. "They might be on this dull old planet for years. . . . It was much pleasanter to doze in the rays of Jupiter and dream of home. Leatrice missed the tridi, the plays, the bright talk and the glitter, the dances and the weekends in New York...
...expected raise; he got no wages at all. His enemy, the calendar, had caused a three-week gap between paydays. He went home broke and disgruntled. There was nothing but macaroni and butter beans for dinner. He choked them down. But he rose during the night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town's 183,000-gallon reservoir slosh merrily down the streets. "You're fired!" cried Cleves's Mayor Fred Pontious the next morning, while the town clerk worked to get up water pressure...
Amidst the glamor and glitter of Manhattan's annual Gotham Debutante Ball, photographers closed in on a pair of lens-catchers, one of the year's most photogenic mother-and-daughter combinations, perennially beautiful Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Debutante Mary Frances Griffin...
...book has some of the same faults as the old, but its 661 profusely illustrated pages glitter with sharp insight. Malraux has arranged them in four rambling essays, which cover the entire course of the world's art. The main theme of each essay is hinted by its title...