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Word: charisma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murray's term expires in June, and it is doubtful that the President will reappoint him. Strauss will do everything he can to prevent Murray from remaining on the AEC; motivated by a powerful sense of charisma, he has no sympathy for gadflies. The service which Murray performs in keeping Strauss on his toes and airing important AEC disputes is an essential one. A Democratic Congress can try to get the President to reappoint Murray, if only by the expedient of log-rolling. It might be worth sending Scott McLeod to Ireland, if Thomas Murray could stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Thorn in the Admiral's Side | 5/2/1957 | See Source »

...appeal. Stevenson did not talk down to the voters. If anything, he was too humble. The voters, unprepared to govern themselves, wanted a strong figure to whom they might entrust their futures in an hour of national crisis. His speeches showed him to be shy, modest, sensitive. His only charisma was that of the mind...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Charismatic Intellect | 5/1/1953 | See Source »

Pictured above are Charisma (Ann Bregstein '53) and the play's authors, John G. Benedict '54 (Beowulf) and Kenneth J. Reckford '54 (Durkheim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Sci. 2 Members End Course in Farce | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

...Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Sci. 2 Members End Course in Farce | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

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