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...California political experts give the maverick mayor more than an outside chance of upsetting Brown, who, while lacking charisma, has given the state effective, honest government during his two terms in office. Yorty, an irascible former Congressman who has been Los Angeles' mayor for five years, has done his best to ignore such problems as Watts-to the extent of blocking urgently needed federal anti-poverty funds for the area before last August's riots. Recent polls of registered Democrats indicate that Brown would trounce him by a margin of nearly...
...Irving, as played by George Denny, was also disappointing, probably because he did not, the script not withstanding, have "moxie, charisma and brass." Or charm. If he had, he could have set some of the numbers on fire...
...term 'Sino-Soviet bloc' "don't know what is going on in the world." It is diverting to speculate upon the reaction at Harvard if a visiting professor were to write a memorandum to the History Department stating that he assumed every one knew that the word "charisma"--to pick a bit of academic jargon at random -- was of little analytic use, and hoped the faculty would have the kindness not to use it in the future...
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and THE ZOO STORY. In a fifth-anniversary revival of this double bill, Edward Albee's Story is still provocative and dramatic and Samuel Beckett's Tape has the charisma of a classic...
...Burly Charisma. More disquieting to thoughtful Germans was Strauss's speech at the C.S.U. convention in which he expounded his own brand of echt Deutsch nationalism. Comparing the recent five-year extension of the statute of limitations for Nazi war criminals with the "thousands of murdered and tens of thousands of abducted" Germans on the Eastern front after World War II, he cried: "The misdeeds of Hitler's myrmidons were committed in concentration camps, which most Germans had only heard of by rumor, while in Czechoslovakia and Serbia, the torture, killing and burning alive of Germans...