Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have sometimes cherished a blunt directness in their politicians. But that particular "give-'em-hell" charm, as Spiro Agnew has never discovered, demands, besides truculence, an implicit instinct for the underdog. It is the charm of the anti-bully...
...When he allows himself to relax, as he did at Treetops, Agnew has occasionally displayed more charm and wit than he is given credit for. "A finesse that the United Nations would be proud of," he observed of the various animals taking turns at a salt lick...
...designs on his money. Most of the time on their travels, she and Long Boy share a room, but their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book's easygoing charm. Looking at Long Boy with his floozy, she observes that "he got that silly, dazed grin like a torn cat being choked to death with cream." Like that extravagant expression, the book is a long, tall, oldtime tale. But as Addie might put it, in the right hands that kind...
Impenetrable Privacy. She, not Teddy, may be the family's best politician. Her campaign charm with the public at teas and lectures is nothing compared with her mastery of the press, to whom she reveals precisely what she chooses, and then drifts deftly off, preserving an impenetrable privacy. Even her children have called her "remote" and, indeed, she seems to have spent much of the last 30 years alone: walking alone, golfing alone, traveling alone. And praying. Thus she has endured the deaths by violence of four of her nine children, the near death, twice, of a fifth...
...filled morning. All Radcliffe girls can check off at least a few and elaborate on them. But what is absolutely vital to every legitimately sexist street confrontation, is that the women must never feel as though she is being singled out for her individuality, her good spirits, or her charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, and I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers, Sleek...