Word: avuncularity
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Goldstein's bearish presence (6 ft., 210 lbs.) and avuncular manner shield a sternness that repels some students. He admits that he is not one "who wants to give everything the students ask for whenever they ask for it." Still, he has the overwhelming support of the faculty, including Pollak, who says that Goldstein is "one of the great men of American law." Another faculty member views him as "a big, strong, tough fellow who wants to do things, wants to move things." As dean, Goldstein will have ample opportunity to do just that...
Enzyme products have also been charged with polluting waterways. Last week a new indictment came from Entertainer Arthur Godfrey, whose avuncular endorsements for Colgate's Axion are a major element in the pre-soak promotion campaign. "They call it an enzyme pre-soak, but that's misleading," said Godfrey, a dedicated conservationist. "They should say that it's an enzyme-active detergent...
...MINH held on to his little mysteries very skillfully indeed, and to much larger ones as well. The face that he presented to the world was that of an avuncular, slightly shabby poet, yet he was a dedicated, often ruthless Communist for half a century. He impressed most visitors with his gentleness, but no man can hold together a Communist Party for nearly 40 years, as he did, without an iron hand. He seemed fragile as a dried leaf, but he endured privation, prison and grueling pressures, and still survived for nearly eight decades...
...economic power. Outwardly, this combi nation brought twin blessings. Malaysia developed a thriving modern economy that produced one of the highest per cap ita incomes in Asia, and at the same time enjoyed the personal freedoms of a liberal democracy. Presiding over the hopeful experiment was the avuncular figure of 66-year-old Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. His Alliance coalition, dominated by Malays but including both Chinese and Indian parties, won control of Parliament during the election of 1955, two years before in dependence, and has kept it ever since...
...hang-ups, he could be called a truly modern figure for his sense of the precarious and tragic in human life. His nonsense verses, always catchy, should acquire renewed relevance today. They were the obverse of the solid moral copper coins given to good little Victorian children by the avuncular Establishment. His characters, like the "Old Person of Cadiz" or "Young Lady of Clare," are rarely righteous, and when they do practice virtue, it often goes refreshingly unrewarded. One thing this age will never really understand about Lear: his penchant for the nonporno limerick...