Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightfall and morning a fifth of its people and a third of its production centers could be destroyed. Over this prospect the U.S. does not grieve or tremble. In a field of tension between unprecedented poles of security and insecurity, this superlatively blessed and threatened people stands with apparent aplomb. Mrs. Clark would be proud of her countrymen...
Steeped in Aplomb. While Hollywood was beginning the new season with drama, Manhattan concentrated on songsters. Eddie Fisher and Perry Como arrived back on TV with the dependability of swallows zooming into Capistrano. Soon due are such talented warblers as Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Martha Wright and Jane Froman. Eddie Fisher sang four songs, worked in a little quick sell for his sponsor (Coca-Cola), and on ballads, unashamedly imitated his idol, Perry Como...
...show, Como demonstrated why he is the acknowledged TV master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...
...selling his moldering ancestral mansion, Towcester Abbey, to an American millionairess who has qualms about its dampness; 3) his fiancee Jill misinterprets his 2 a.m. exit from the millionairess' room and promptly returns his ring. Trusty Jeeves settles these and a dozen other complications with his customary aplomb. Bill and Jill are put back on the cooing road to matrimony, and Jeeves finesses the American millionairess into crating Towcester Abbey, stone by stone, and rebuilding it in Southern California...
Musically, nobody needed to worry. Coloratura Peters has a voice of exceptional purity and the kind of confidence and musicianship that critics like to call aplomb. Onstage for almost all of Figaro's 2½-hour performance, she skipped through Susanna's role without blowing a cue, delivered herself of some of the sweetest-sounding high notes to be heard anywhere. The packed audience loved her and the press next day agreed. "A direct hi., ' said the Daily News...