Word: plushness
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...Rusk spoke in the plush conference of the new State Department members of the Young Democratic of Harvard and Radcliffe received a briefing on American policy on and Latin America. An official them that the Alliance for Progress "necessarily an instrument of U.S. policy," which justified "table pleas" for a tough line against at the recent Punta. del Este . The alliance is not "just a giving away of money," he noted. The official repeated the formal United position that President Kennedy responsibility for any American in the April invasion of . However, he referred the group Theodore Draper's article...
Such contradictions abounded in an age whose propriety fostered its concealments. There was tremendous churchgoing, but lukewarm churchgoers, and a very worldly church: a future bishop examined candidates for Holy Orders while waiting to bat at cricket. And behind middle-class pomposity and plush cowered lower-class poverty and suffering: girl apprentices working a 20-hour day, girl coal miners standing in water up to their thighs...
Swinging onto the stage of the red-plush Teatro Nuovo for his operatic debut, a gangling, long-beaked American basso stirred his Milanese audience to excited whispers: "That's the son of Lolita." In fact, the new Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville could at best be ranked only as the fictional nymphet's half brother-the son of her creator, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. But on his own merits, Harvard-educated Dmitri Nabokov, 27, a part-time mountain climber and amateur road racer, earned bravos from the discriminating Milanese gallery for his comic skill and the rich...
...story building for $165,000. Broker on the deal was Harry B. Helmsley, chief of the Manhattan broker-management firm of Helmsley-Spear. Wien and Helmsley have been allies ever since, have parlayed their original venture into a $600 million real estate empire that includes New York's plush Plaza hotel and the more plebian Taft, Cleveland's Leader Building and the Palm Beach Towers. From their handsomely appointed offices in New York's skyscraper Lincoln Building, both Wien and Helmsley have been staring out at the Empire State for years. Said Helmsley last week: "I think...
...Communist Deputy. He was grandly aware of his station. Once, when Ernst Thalmann, the new party leader boarded a train at a Berlin railway station and took his seat in a third-class railway coach, Ulbricht stiffly declined to join his colleague, choosing instead a seat in the plush first-class section. He was entitled to such preference as a member of the Reichstag...