Word: tarnish
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Perhaps literary figures shouldn't write. Perhaps they should just conduct salons, help budding talents bud, and occasionally murmur sage epigrams. Then their writing couldn't tarnish their legend and we could be content to read about them in nostagalgic memoirs and intellectual histories. But unfortunately Gertrude Stein did write a bad undramatic play and all the skill of a fine repertory company isn't enough to save...
...Caddy. Soon Elvis Presley was upping the ante, wearing a full suit of gold lame. So did Elvis' imitators, and now Liberace complains, "I really have to exaggerate to look different and to top them." He also has to spend. His suits run $10,000 apiece, and they tarnish so fast that he needs ten replacements a year. Even his economies come high-like his $8,000 diamond buttons, which, he maintains, "are very practical, because they're studded in and out, and I can wear them with any suit...
Thanks largely to these new strips, the whole comics industry-300 syndicated strips and panels in 1,700 newspapers-is pulling itself out of the doldrums. In the 1950s the comics lost both readers and advertisers to television. Now that TV's appeal has begun to tarnish, the comics are on the upswing. Advertising revenue for the Sunday comics supplements reached an estimated 6,000,000 in 1964, double what it was the year before. While adventure strips may be hard-put to compete with TV shoot-'em-ups, there is nothing on television that packs quite...
...hearings on the Bobby Baker case have resumed in the Senate Rules Committee. Though the election is over, Democrats are perhaps understandably reluctant to tarnish the shining mandate won in November. It is clear now that the committee will restrict itself to Baker's financial exploits outside the Senate and that it will not investigate his dealings with Senate members. The Rules Committee thus continues to act with indifference toward the issue of the misuse of privilege within the Senate. Throughout the year-long investigation, the lid has been firmly shut on this Pandora...
...another, I am no longer shocked when a college administrator shows by illmanered remarks that he believes human dignity to be something which one finds, certainly in wealthy alumni, perhaps in student officers of powerful campus organizations, but never in student representatives of protest groups whose activities might tarnish the school's bright silver name. But surely the CRIMSON has misquoted Dean Watson on the subject of Mary Gillmors and the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club. Surely a Harvard faculty committee is not planning a rule change to insure that "there wont be any more Mary Gillmors."' Such a statement would...