Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courage to salvage the unsalvageable. At one point, the major general is the very model of comic relief when he buries a boring ballad by aping a concert singer ineptly palming a prompt card. When the card flutters away like a leaf, he imperturbably unpockets another, finally loses his aplomb in a venomous facial duel with the orchestra...
After all, who started all the Berlin trouble anyway? he asked with the cool aplomb of a circus shell-game proprietor. Certainly not the Soviet Union, he answered himself. "A military hysteria is now being drummed up in the United States," he said. "Comrades, it must be said frankly that the Western powers are pushing the world to a dangerous divide, and the threat of an armed attack on socialist states cannot be excluded." Khrushchev hastily repeated his assurance that Russia means no harm in Berlin with its proposed East German peace treaty. "We do not intend to infringe upon...
...general and President he no longer knew how to pilot any vehicle more complicated than a caddie cart. Last week-after studiously familiarizing himself with the mechanical mutants currently surviving Detroit's Darwinian struggle-Ike spun a 1958 Imperial through a Pennsylvania license test with all the aplomb of Stirling Moss. Final verdict on the General of the Army by his police corporal examiner: "An excellent driver...
...tragedy imply its death? Critic George Steiner answers with a provisional yes in a book that is less remarkable for its conclusions than for its sense, style, erudition and critical verve. At 32, Critic Steiner shapes his definitions and distinctions with mature authority, and shows a kind of Goethian aplomb in stating bald-faced but sometimes neglected truths, as when he writes, "Tragedies end badly...
Apotheosis at Versailles. Only once, at a reception for the ladies of the press at the American embassy, did the First Lady let her aplomb slip slightly for a moment. The controversy, as usual, was over clothes. A reporter from Women's Wear Daily, the U.S. garment industry's trade paper, asked if she ever read the publication. Jackie, sensitive to W.W.D.'s criticism of her preference for French clothiers, bridled. "Hardly ever?any more," she replied. The reporter persisted: Didn't she ever glance at Women's Wear Daily? Said Jackie, frost creeping into her voice...