Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality of the soloists if not for the imagination of the choreographers. But as always, the company was at its best in the familiar pageantesque fairy-tale fare-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty-and in a revised and turbulent Petrouchka. Fonteyn & Co. still moved with a cool and stately charm unmatched by any other ballet group seen in the U.S. That seems to be more than enough for U.S. audiences; half a million people who will see the Royal Ballet during its present tour have already bought more than a million dollars' worth of tickets...
Josh White suffers from having been over-recorded, which means that his audiences know his songs as well as he does. Yet he has to be seen to be appreciated; he is a powerful, vital and ingratiating man. In some concerts he has depended too much on his considerable charm, and simply gone through the motions on his songs. Last night he sang ten ballads and blues with drive and bite, and succeeded completely in keeping his familiar material alive...
...more of it. The rest of the answers are more personal: one is what TV hucksters call sex appeal. Murrow is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority. Person to Person, which also displays his urbane charm and ready smile, attracts far more women than men viewers, according to Trendex surveys, and in deference to this finding Person to Person technicians (so far unknown to Murrow) are now under orders to adjust camera angles and lighting to compensate for the latest recession in his hairline...
...that philosophical mood, Ike, accompanied by a convalescing Mamie, flew to a community that has entertained eleven Presidents since George Washington visited there in 1790. Proper, poised Newport and its 40,000 inhabitants warmed up to the Eisenhower charm, gave the President an all-out welcome...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...