Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle ground Derry Griscom's "Two Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...
Graciousness & Charm. Dean James Cannon of the Duke Divinity School is sure "that no one anywhere is doing as good a job as is Professor Cleland in teaching the art of preaching to young ministers." But Cleland's ministry does not end there. His door is always open to everyone asking advice, and many do. And he is constantly sought after to speak to secular groups; he is booked up for commencement addresses for the next five years...
...responsibility. Thus he works with the strain off. It is sometimes wise to remember that there is such a thing as Christian nonchalance. Maybe there is room for a new beatitude: 'Blessed are the debonair,' in whom the Word of God sparkles with graciousness and charm...
...most laughs, and deserves most of them, with his gape-mouthed version of a farm boy at Harvard. Robert Rosenberger and Lee Jefferies do the romantic bits with fervor and slightly weak voices, managing, above all, to seem sincere and attractive. Barbara Williams' distinctly frail voice was backed with charm and bounce for "Incognito"--her only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When the Postman Rings...
...member of the Graham team, singing his own composition, I'd Rather Have Jesus Than Anything Else, most of the knife-thoughts had been washed out of the newsmen. A woman reporter found him completely disarming. "He seems to have the sincerity, ingenuousness, the sort of simple charm that is the greatest fun about Americans and the quality that makes us love Danny Kaye...