Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment he boarded the Air India Constellation at Geneva, Chou En-lai set out to charm the Indians. He smiled graciously at the air hostess and murmured "I am grateful" at the slightest mark of attention. He ostentatiously relished the galley's chicken curry and passed around autographs and packets of Chinese cigarettes. Just before the plane touched down at New Delhi's Palam airport, Chou handed the crew a written certificate: "Skillful pilotship and wonderful service. All this is worthy of being learned by Chinese airlines. I am grateful to the Indian government for sending...
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
...parlor campaign in Los Angeles' 26th District,- and apply the Roosevelt personality indoors at close range. He asked good Democrats to open their homes to him and they did, five or six times daily. At cozy meetings, attended largely by neighborhood housewives, Jimmy drank coffee and served up charm along with his political pitch. He knew what the assembled ladies would be thinking about. So a lesser candidate would carefully bring up the subject, and suggest that everyone would like to hear Jimmy's side of the story. Then Jimmy would explain gently that his wife had blackmailed...
Such paintings, with their fusion of lush color and pixilated charm, have beguiled thousands who do not pretend to understand them (if they are understandable), have put Chagall reproductions over many a middlebrow mantelpiece, and won their 64-year-old creator a place alongside such accepted modern French masters as Picasso, Matisse and Braque. "I am for order," he explains, "but if one wants order, the painting must have the air of disorder...
...Bronte sisters, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Eliot, are too fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa...