Word: flashier
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...blackened silver trophies. It is legend. The Champ is inevitably bested. His record is broken. He dies. Or he retires in paunchy undefeatedness into the musty interior of a bar & grill, a half-interest in an oil well or the edible greenness of a southern pasture. Faster, stronger, younger, flashier pretenders rewrite the record books. But then they recede into the mists and, as before, memory clutches at the same old names. "There," says memory, "was a real champion...
Though the campaign buttons of 1952 were bigger and flashier than ever before, almost nobody was wearing them but youngsters. There were Stevenson supporters among teen-agers-as one result last week the Eisenhower train rolled grandly from Sacramento to Oakland, Calif, plastered with Adlai stickers. But the noisiest single phenomenon of the campaign was the vociferous Ike worship which has gripped grade-school kids...
...provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants - and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
Pacote is half-drunk. For a year, his courage has been "going fast like a handful of water dribbling out of ... cupped palms through the fingers." At 29 his face is scarred and drawn, his hair streaked with white. A flashier torero, 20-year-old Tano Ruiz, has the crowds in his pocket and has goaded the old pro into a last defense of his crown. As Pacote belts away whisky to blunt the knife of fear in his stomach, his hand-me-down society mistress taunts him as "a picknose peasant ... a shell...
...something like the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton: its members do not have to bother with students or lectures; they get paid (about $5,000 a year) to sit and think. This Merleau-Ponty is eminently well qualified to do. A shy, retiring type, less noticed than his flashier school chum, he has been writing heavy technical works on philosophy ( The Structure of Behavior, The Phenomenology of Perception). In the existentialist cafés, Merleau-Ponty's appointment was greeted with dismay, "Ça alors," protested a young woman in blue denims and a wind jacket, "you think...