Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow in your time for many the taste for this long wished-for kind of life has gone flat. Its authenticity and its attractiveness have lost their charm. In the university world this is a present major problem, perhaps our most frightening one. But whatever the deepest origins of our current troubles, we need not wait on their full explication to acknowledge that their effects on higher education in your time have been, at the very least, jarring...
...work on a sequel to be called Papillon Comes Back-1945 to 1969. So much for Part II. What happens to him as a TV personality in the U.S. will properly belong to Part III, if he ever chooses to write it. Since he is evidently a man of charm, energy and perhaps genius, almost anything could happen. Maybe he will end up marrying Zsa Zsa Gabor or run for Governor of New York. On the track record, both the lady and the state might do worse...
...Maurice Allington runs The Green Man pub outside London, drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life...
...liberals who talk with James L. Buckley come away mildly dazed by his charm and intelligence. They may also wish that he were one of them. As the somewhat improbable candidate of New York's growing Conservative Party, Buckley, 47, the elder brother of Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., has begun to glimpse the possibility that he might be sitting in the U.S. Senate next January...
Best Man. Perhaps his most potent weapon is his considerable charm. A handsome man with a graying crew cut, Jim Buckley is affable and deferential, intelligent without the public hauteur of his brother Bill. "Jim is as firm as I am," says Bill, "but he never offends. I couldn't imagine Jimmy receiving a bad book review. Between the ages of 20 and 34, it was impossible to get my brother on Saturday-he was best man in more weddings than anyone in history...