Word: avuncularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rouse is a stocky (5 ft. 11 in.), balding, bespectacled man who looks like ?and has been?an elder of the Presbyterian Church. On a recent late-morning tour of Harborplace, he was dressed like an avuncular preppie in a blue button-down shirt, a loud madras jacket and Bass Weejun loafers. Ankling around his waterfront pavilions, he is not so much a monarch surveying his turf as a wide-eyed tourist in a wonderland of consumer goodies. In the Light Street Pavilion, he sniffs the potted hydrangeas at the entrance, saunters beamishly past scores of food outlets, surveys...
...Office of the Secretary, involving themselves in decisions at every level and running the Pentagon as if it were a small business. Like Reagan in the White House, Weinberger prefers to delegate, acting as chief executive of a big, diversified conglomerate. At the same time, he will take an avuncular interest in even the lowliest aide and will gladly spare a few minutes to look at a secretary's vacation snapshots. In general, he tries to devote his own time to long-range planning and big issues like the manned bomber or the MX basing system, over which...
Charles Kuralt, 46, CBS Morning host, refuting constant descriptions of himself as "avuncular": "I'm fat and bald, but I don't think of myself as avuncular. It's too bad. I'd rather look like Rather. Of course, wouldn't anybody...
...hallmark of Ronald Reagan and his California insiders. Says one senior Administration official who has worked with both the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense: "Haig worries about authority, while Weinberger assumes it. Haig is tense by nature, where as Weinberger is relaxed." As a result, the avuncular Weinberger has so far managed to avoid the four-star controversy that has surrounded his take-charge colleague at State...
Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address was the loudest statement yet by the aggrieved. The No. 1 victim stood before the nation proclaiming avuncular outrage over the federal family he had just inherited. Government is the problem...