Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats only a handful of blacks and over-30 academics to represent. The Democratic National Committee is fumbling for a constituency. The recent effort by the party treasurer to expel a radical named Galbraith from the Democratic Party Council indicates how convincing Nixon has been-whatever his personal charisma-in showing where the votes...
...progress from liberalism to violence may be intended as a paradigm of contemporary student politics, but Director Paul Williams is equally interested in the human impulses that shape history. A is certainly no hero, and as a political figure he possesses about as much charisma as the neighborhood poll watcher. His gimpy right leg cripples him physically, and his academic training-plus a lower-middle-class upbringing-tends to paralyze him politically. Unfortunately, The Revolutionary sometimes suffers from the same lingering paralysis. The crucial climactic scene ends with a frame-freeze as A confronts the judge: Will he throw...
...Initially, he struck observers as a competent machine politician. Now they are not so sure. His tireless stumping, plus the fact that he is the father of eight, persuaded many Mexicans that Echeverría possesses what might be called "macharismo"-the requisite Latin American machismo mixed with political charisma. Dressed casually wherever he went, he dined with peasant families, spoke informally about national problems and debated with students whenever he could. Defending the jailing of rioters, he said: "Not one was arrested for writing a novel or a poem or for his way of thinking." The students were...
...four-term Congressman from Los Angeles, a dropout who had dropped in, strictly a modern man. Like his mentor Gene McCarthy, Brown is so relaxed that at times it is hard to tell whether he is utterly exhausted or just doesn't give a damn. "I have no charisma," he groans. Yet he does, despite all that nonchalance. Heavy sideburns halfway down his face, a budding second chin that gives him a self-indulgent look, virile, thick, dark eyebrows and steady dark eyes, a calm voice-is there restrained passion underneath, or despair? So like McCarthy. To the kids...
...never grandstands. On the McGovern amendment he's playing majority leader while trying to build bipartisan support. He realizes how vulnerable Congress is when playing with Constitutional issues while 'our boys are dying.' He's just pushing for as much as he can get. But he just has no charisma...