Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed to unite progressives and conservatives in the Salvadoran church with his moderate position. His theory that only reforms will neutralize insurrection is quite similar to Duarte's. When...
Caught between two pressures, Glemp may find himself in embarrassing difficulty. The hand-picked successor to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski lacks Wyszynski's charisma and sure hand for balancing accommodation with the Communists with, when necessary, forthright independence. Some recent decisions of the Polish church, as a result, have been made not by Glemp alone but by a council of the episcopate that includes Cracow's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski and seven senior bishops. The council's communal decisions could yet become more defiant toward the regime than Glemp would like. -By Spencer Davidson. Reported by John...
...beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background and despite how much they would like to despise him. Mitchell C. Warren's Don Giovanni lacks the spark of charisma to ignite the entire production. His voice, though handsome, is not strong enough to stir our fear or our hatred and is frequently drowned out by the orchestra...
...Ronald Reagan--who will defend a record of his own making--is not Vice-President Richard Nixon. And Gary Hart--who has not yet demonstrated any great personal charisma--is not Senator John Kennedy. More important, Ronald Reagan offers a clear--albeit atavistic--vision of what he would like America to be Reagan is dead set on dismantling government--or at least the kind Americans have known for the past forty years. His American future is a blurry dream of what this country never was in the nineteenth century...
...money organization and strategy, of course lies the Republicans' biggest asset--Reagan's enormous personal charisma. and style. But exactly when he takes that style out of the Rose Garden and goes directly to the voters remains unclear. For the meantime, while there are no contested Republican primaries this year both Reagan and Bush will make appearances in states at the time of the Democratic contests...