Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensuously attractive, Jackson is the kind of leader who suggests both a dignity of bearing in his brooding dedication to his cause and a sense of brotherly warmth in his casual Levi's, boots and open sport shirts. He possesses what he himself matter-of-factly accepts as charisma, and he inspires devotion among a wide range of followers...
...facades of large brick city churches, the rude clapboard of country chapels, the salvation-emblazoned windows of tattered store fronts. It is a montage of impressions, some real, some misleading: the low-moaning spirituals, the clapping and the shouted amens; the phenomenon of a Father Divine and the curious charisma once possessed by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the prophetic, nation-shaking philosophy of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the pragmatic, neighborhood-building politics of a Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...potboiler" label. Schaap wrote it at the most opportune time possible-shortly after Namath had silenced his critics by engineering an improbable upset of the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl game a year ago-and he consciously played up the personal qualities that had given Namath his notorious charisma...
...Decade" issue [Dec. 26], you omitted an extremely important part of modern living -the frantic changes in America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...