Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What politicians call "the Kennedy thing" is a psychological compound of iridescent myth and charisma, excitement and guilt, admiration and sometimes a morbid voyeurism. Even the blandest men in power?William Mc-Kinley, for example?can draw a maniac's fire. But the Kennedys are freighted with American legend and invite the passionate involvement of strangers. It shows in the grimy and lonely attention of people who have carved away pieces of the Dike Bridge at Chappaquiddick for souvenirs, or those who have taken to the Kennedy Center like locusts, swiping prisms from the chandeliers, bits of the wall coverings...
...hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic beneath the book--refusing, for example, to parody Martin Luther King or Lee Harvey Oswald while socking it to Jacqueline Charisma Colossus--as with Millhouse, the enemy is not so much one particular man in power as it is those forces which permitted him to find his way there in the first place...
Finally, Novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated...
John Day, her campaign manager and brother, said that the Hicks campaign spent less than $50,000 on the preliminary and was run by 1400 volunteers. "Louise is the greatest asset to the campaign. Her presence makes loads and loads of converts to her cause. She has a charisma for people," Day said about his sister in the Boston Globe (September...
John Day, her campaign manager and brother, said that the Hicks campaign spent less than $50,000 on the preliminary and was run by 1400 volunteers. "Louise is the greatest asset to the campaign. Her presence makes loads and loads of converts to her cause. She has a charisma for people," Day said about his sister in the Boston Globe (September...