Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman who can charm away his grief, my star will rise...
...week-as Maine voters rolled up their victory and Democratic dollars rolled heavily into the campaign fund-but the party's chief candidate conversely seemed to be having his troubles. It was characteristic of Adlai Stevenson's week that whenever he loosened up and turned on the charm, he was a snappy hit; but before TV cameras and big audiences Adlai sadly sagged...
...Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo part is no virtuoso standout, contains no smashing chords; it is a kind of foreground commentary on the music as it unreels. But Pianist Rapp played it lovingly and expertly. "Right after the war, with so many disabled veterans around, I found genuine sympathy among audiences," he says. "Today...
...analyze loathsome women as a distinctive psychiatric category. He bases his observations on six young women patients, all of whom "were 'loathed' by everybody, including the analyst. What set them apart, according to Stein, is a "changeable, nebulous, ambiguous, enigmatic attitude [and an] alluring charm sharply contrasting with their sarcastic, cruel reasonableness . . ." They projected "a vivid image of the evil temptress, from whom it is no far cry to the 'witch...
...plugs beer. Banks are using cartoons to encourage thrift. The low-key sell is not in itself new on the U.S. scene, e.g., JellO, Campbell's Soup and Coca-Cola have gentled readers for decades. But more and more advertisers are taking the position that an ounce of charm can be worth a pound of pressure...