No one of the time would have predicted that it would be an inventor, of all occupations, who would become the cynosure of the age.
When the university opened in 1965, the dawn of the flower child era, the formula for laid-back education proved so popular that Santa Cruz attracted the cream of California's students and became the cynosure of the counterculture.
There are plenty of unexpected illuminations, too, about how Wasserstein managed to keep parts of her life intensely private, even as she became the cynosure of various overlapping social circles.
Whether or not this was true – as a material analysis it's a little shaky – his faction became the cynosure for the resulting spasms of state-sponsored paranoia.
Ms. Keenan-Bolger's Katie, the former homecoming queen who has been doing her desperate best to keep the high school high going for way too long, becomes the unlikely cynosure of our sympathy.
Over the next few days, in between checking to see if Fumiko had left her room, I allowed the twenty pages to become my obsession, the cynosure of my day-to-day life, as all-consuming as a new love affair.
There, the young poet, already famous, became a cynosure, the center of a group of adoring girls.
They opened a shop in the East Village called Horn, which became a cynosure for artists and designers.
Kawaii became a cynosure of high as well as popular Japanese art with the rise to fame, a decade ago, of the master of plastic-fantastic puerility, Takashi Murakami.
Mother and father became abstract, almost mythic notions, as parents were displaced by the state as the cynosure of the young.
