Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overbrook High School, at least 140 different colleges shared Phog's high opinion of him. They offered Wilt the world-tuition, cars, free air travel home on weekends-but Phog outfoxed them all. After peddling Kansas' virtues to Wilt and his coach, he turned his charm on Wilt's mother ("Mrs. Chamberlain, now I see why Wilt is such a nice...
...dialogue, which is too seldom really bright and too often near-neighbor to the gag. Fortunately, a number of lines that were not born witty achieve a certain wit through the adroitness of the cast. Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, and Robert Preston as the tycoon, lend a certain airy charm, provide a certain steady carbonation...
...made his movie start in East of Eden, and was killed last month at 24 in an automobile accident. In this, the second of his three movie roles -Giant will probably be released next year -there is further evidence that Actor Dean was a player of unusual sensibility and charm...
Strangely enough, several of these characters lose part of their whiskey-soaked charm when they make the trip to Hollywood. Strangely, that is, because they are played by some of the best movie actors. Marlon Brando, as Sky Masterson, acts well enough, but his style seems cramped by the good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years...
...philosophy seems to have been a kind of verbal finger painting. As the nuns of the Little Company of Mary padded about him during the last decade of his life, he drew an appealing sketch of old age which also sums up much of his carefully Epicurean philosophy: "The charm I find in old age-for I was never happier than I am now-comes of having learned to live in the moment, and thereby in eternity; and this means recovering a perpetual youth, since nothing can be fresher than each day as it dawns and changes...