Word: lusterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one type of "Harvard Man" who views his education as a substitution for, rather than an enhancement of personal growth. He spends his life racking up achievement after achievement, adding luster to a glossy self-confidence. A deeper and more textured awareness and concern for those around him could transmute him from a merely flashy individual into a remarkable human being, deserving of a loving companion...
...come, in part, from disappointed tourism. The south of France has drawn artists since Van Gogh; its blue, fouled coast is speckled with monumental names, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard. Though condos, fast-food chains and jammed autoroutes from Bordighera to the Camargue have somewhat dimmed its luster, it still possesses-especially for those who have not been there-a durable allure...
...were given to a third-rate world power, it would make them a second-rate world power." Buick will put out a limited line of 10,000 Centuries called the Olympia-and charge $406 extra. All the backers expect to benefit on the bottom line from the Games' luster and class. "We don't plan on having a discount Olympic Slurpee," says a Southland 7-Eleven official. "This man Ueberroth and his team," observes an executive at Converse, "are going to make money for the city of Los Angeles, for the Olympics, for just about everybody else, including...
Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater." The Daily Telegraph: "Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
...annual award amounting to $15,000 is generous, but what has brought fame to the scholarship and endowed its holders with distinctive luster are its unusual criteria for selection. Rhodes disdained candidates who were "merely bookworms"; he demanded that the winners have the character to fight "the world's fight." Despite numerous modifications of his imperious vision, the basic criterion remains the same today. Says David Alexander, secretary of the Rhodes program in the U.S.: "The Rhodes competition is a talent hunt for an elite that will lead...