Word: lusterizing
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...crucial negotiations with the European Common Market. Shrewd, tart-tongued "Rab" Butler, who has long been Macmillan's chief rival for 10 Downing Street, was thus removed from the party's nerve center to an assignment that could make or break the government-but will reflect luster, if Britain enters the Common Market on favorable terms, mainly on Harold Macmillan...
...question Jones's conclusion that Wright and not Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of their generation, or that Wright's corkscrew Guggenheim Museum is his best work. (Perhaps because Le Corbusier is the most inaccessible of architects, Jones's chapter on him lacks the luster of the others...
...competition (most notably Maurice Béjart's company) will have a tough time copying, ineptly or otherwise, the ballet he produced at the Spoleto Festival last week. A plotless work designed to have, according to Robbins, "the total effect of reading the morning paper," Events adds new luster to the career of a man who, from Fancy Free to West Side Story, has developed into the freshest creator of U.S. ballet...
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...more complicated orbital flight that Russia claimed last month for its own astronaut, Yuri Gagarin (TIME cover, April 21). Still, it was a magnificent milestone on man's path into space; it was a signal achievement of U.S. science. And it brightened the cold-war world with a luster all its own. It was a gaudy American gamble, a nation going for broke in the glare of pitiless publicity...