Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace Kline as president, the convention unanimously elected Charles Baker Shuman, head of the Illinois Agricultural Association. Shuman, 47, is a teetotaling Sunday School teacher who owns a corn, cattle and soybean farm near Sullivan, Ill. Almost painfully serious, he lacks Kline's charm and self-assurance, but in farm policy, the two men are carbon copies. Both oppose rigid supports and Government controls...
...should take. Carved decorations in the awkward borders, for one thing, would relieve actors of projecting emotion. Henceforth, when a pretty young friend of some producer wants to register anger, instead of furrowing her generally marble brow, she need only point, with languid grandeur, toward the appropriate mask. Her charm need not be destroyed by the necessity of acting. This could mean great things for the future of television...
...charm of Defense Secretary Wilson, up to now, has been his winsome candor. Political expediency never seemed to stop him from saying what he felt, and he pursued his policies with a fervor that belied his own statement that every time his mouth opened there was a foot in it. So, one would note his new directive to the military, calling for a reversal of his centralized buying doctrine, with a certain regret, were it not so necessary for the country's welfare...
Weber: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Ruggiero Ricci, violin; Carlo Bussotti, piano: London). For all their outdated sighs and postures, these youthful works of the first genuine German Romantic composer (1786-1826) are melodious, unpretentious and full of charm...
...whimsicality of his reaction to certain unique aspects of Radcliffe give the book an additional charm. McCord's appreciation of the unusual breadth of selection of courses, for instance...