Word: patina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town from its reputation as a haven for crooks. Nobody seems to know how much Mafia money is still invested in Vegas (estimates range from none at all, which is patently ridiculous, to upwards of $100 million), but Hughes and Kerkorian have indeed lent the town at least a patina of respectability. In Hughes' six casinos, for example, gaming operations are supervised by ex-cops and ex-FBI agents rather than by gamblers. But Las Vegas retains its image as the wickedest town in the West, which is, of course, just what its visitors want...
UNDER the late spring sun, a patina of calm overlays the American campus. Nearly all the rhetoric is coming from duly invited commencement speakers rather than protest leaders. The marching feet belong not to demonstrators but to the 925,000 youths receiving college and graduate degrees this month. Some of the most violent students have been expelled, suspended, imprisoned or pacified. Here and there last week, a few recalcitrants cried defiance, but with little tangible effect. It looks like peace. In reality, the prevailing condition is a most fragile truce...
...dealer in Portland, Me. Nudged by demand, a fantastic avalanche of bear traps, Ball mason jars, Prince Albert tobacco tins, grocery scales and mustache cups is pouring onto dealers' shelves. The rust and dust of their long exile in cellars and attics are as carefully preserved as the patina on a Louis XV fauteuil. Green glass electric insulators, the kind still visible high on telephone poles in parts of the country, are selling briskly at about $2.50 apiece from Poland, Me., to San Francisco; they are used inside homes as candlesticks, paperweights, objets trouvés. The boom...
Change as Ruin. In Torregreca, no undue sentimentality was shown on either side. By 1959, beneath her Poughkeepsie patina, Miss Cornelisen had become a five-year veteran of Southern Italy, working for a British charity called the Save the Children Fund, bent on setting up nursery centers in recalcitrant mountain villages. Torregreca was the intended scene of her greatest triumph: a new master center where teachers could be developed and experiments initiated. Thus trained and dedicated, she soon found that the town's aura of Romantic gilt was misleading...
...expected the initial bliss that most new White House tenants enjoy on Capitol Hill. The political atmosphere has been too roiled, public opinion too combustible. Partly for this reason, partly because he fell so far short of a popular majority, Nixon will probably attempt to give a non-partisan patina to his Administration. Otherwise he cannot hope to rally the public support and Democratic cooperation he will need...