Word: charisma
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After a spring of tension, hostility and little healing, Harvard needs more than a summer vacation to smooth relations and heal the inflammations that marked spring term. We need a leader with stature and charisma to be able to reach out to all areas of the community and coordinate the kind of progressive and far reaching activities that the University needs...
...achy-breaky pain in her reading of Play the Music for Me. On the Secret Garden album, Daisy Eagan, the show's child star, is forever 11, frozen in innocence. Faith Prince's comic chirps and sniffles come across magnificently on Guys and Dolls, as does the schlemiel's charisma of Nathan Lane in his Sue Me duet with Prince...
...takes on the biggest job of his 30 years as a career diplomat, Eagleburger, 62, somehow makes all this work to his advantage. "There is charisma in that funny penguin of a figure," says a veteran congressional aide. His devil-may-care attitude about how he treats his body extends to how he handles his public image, and at least in that regard the result has been astonishingly healthy...
Holden Caulfield carried the sixties generation along by the sheer force of his subversive personality. But these are the choice-filled nineties, characterized by mallside food courts and 57 channels on the cable box. Personality turns our heads, but Tyler needs a little more than charisma to grab our attention for good...
...maliciousness grows increasingly appealing, image has grown increasingly important. Public figures don't necessarily have to be attractive--observe Ross Perot--but they do need charisma. And their every move is subject to hyper-examination. Back in the 1960 Presidential debates, Richard M. Nixon drew scorn for his sweat and his misapplied TV makeup. today, pundits overanalyze Barbara Bush's faux pearls. It's all part of the same game: looks first and substance later, if ever...