Word: charismas
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...about, what, thirty years. They didn't create those reforms they were claiming. They were always postponing the reforms in spite of the fact or because of the fact that they were always using the word "reforms" like a sort of a magic word, a sort of a charisma through myths such as reformism...
...Angelo, and not Agata, the play's center. This leaves the three women on too much of an equal and collectively subordinate level. Moss has had to miscast himself as Angelo, which in large measure explains this shift in emphasis, since he plays the part with too little earthly charisma, and too much surface charm, to be merely an agent of anything. Angelo emerges as a likeable rather than loveable character, and his appeal reaches as much to the audience as to the women on stage with...
Television, which once seemed a magic carpet to elective office, seems to have lost some of its talismanic quality, and is least effective in local races. More than ever, the ingredients of political success are charisma, stamina-and lucre. Indeed, whether or not inflation proves a telling issue with the voters in November, politicians agree that the cost of campaigning has soared almost beyond reason...
Reagan speeches, despite the man's pre-Labor Day build-up as an actor and the exaggerated Time Magazine reports about his fantastic charisma, are surprisingly dour and mechanical...
Lindsay's next three-and-a-half years will see these forces converging. Charisma and promises are the glories of a new mayor. So far, Lindsay's idealism has been both his major source of energy and his biggest curse. His commissioners also have big ideas, but bigger, tradition-bound bureaucracies. Results will be the final measuring rod, and a year or two from now the mayor will need more than that sign in his office that reminds him to SMILE