But when their father told them on Dec. 10, 2008, that his glittering success was actually an immense Ponzi scheme, the brothers were instantly united.
Mike Gonzales's costumes play an important part in the glittering success of the Trocks' "Paquita," staged by Ms. Kunikova after the Petipa original.
But here's the rub: if one believes that there is an intimate connection between one's authentic self and glittering success at work, then the experience of failure and forced unemployment is accepted as one's own fault.
Up until then, the company, founded by the activist businesswoman Anita Roddick and her husband, T. Gordon Roddick, had been a glittering success, pioneering the idea of "retail with a conscience" and what came to be known as alternative business practices.
Even by the standards of an athlete whose career has been marked as much by mishap and misfortune as by glittering success, the past 12 months have been torrid.
In this case, Margaret, a lifelong dilettante, decides to write a novel because it seems a way to "achieve glittering success without the painful and humiliating apprenticeship other well-regarded careers required".
The world of Weimar and fascism in which the first generation grew up was a very different one to the apparent glittering success of "classless" liberal democratic (West) Germany.
And somehow, with an astonishing force of will, Whillans turned what might have been a patchy career into glittering success, reaching the summit on 27 May with Scottish climber Dougal Haston.
