Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic difficulty is the same in Social Sciences and Humanities. Now that the initial glamor of General Education has worn off, and with the rising significance of departments in the College, successful professors are increasingly reluctant to spend their time on non-departmental work like General Education...
...mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect. He has kept his party fully behind NATO and, though infatuated with the notion of disengagement, has also kept his party behind the allied position in Berlin...
Something about Washington divests diplomats of their aura of glamor. The sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
...splash with the applicants. "I want to live in the 20th century, not in some stuffy ivy-covered copy of Mount Vernon." "What's so great with the entry system, anyway? Personally I don't like stairs." "It's the modern look that hit me; the duplex rooms are 'glamor plus'--real appealing...
...goes: glamor, elevators, refrigerators, silence--anything you name is somebody's reason for going, somebody's reason for not going. "I really don't care what they do, it was just a joke to apply anyway...