Word: lusterizing
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...classmate (Harvard '40) and friend of John F. Kennedy, Clark was head of CBS News (1961-64), then associate publisher of the New York Post (1965-66). Richard Goodwin, 36, one of the most talented New Frontier wordmen and a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy, lends the oratorical luster to many of McCarthy's speeches and is, besides, an effective organizer...
Methodist officials are understandably embarrassed by the situation, since they support Oxnam in his desire to improve the university but do not want the divinity school to lose its luster. Unfortunately, the atmosphere of distrust and discouragement at the seminary is such that there now seems to be no way to halt its decline-and Oxnam may find it difficult to hire qualified replacements for the men who have already quit...
...banquet itself, however, verged on disaster. The confusion of the College Young Democrats combined with the histrionics of at least one member of the Harvard delegation contributed to the trouble, but the Senator's lack-luster speech was mostly to blame. It was just too low-key for the occasion, and more applause preceeded it than followed...
...problem is Perry. He lacks color and temperament. Morison works hard to achieve a spit-and-polish luster in the image of "Old Bruin," but he makes the mistake of comparing him to his older brother Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. "Oliver fascinated people when he talked," while Matthew "could only convince them." Matthew had the admirable but unexciting virtues of a seagoing Alger hero. Utterly efficient, he ran a taut but not too happy ship, stressing maximum standards of hygiene and minimum shore liberty. When corporal punishment was abolished, he predicted that the Navy would...
...Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...