Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confined to trouble in any one campus or in any one country." He said that student discontent reflects "a deep dissatisfaction with the kind of life and organization that has been developed in the industrial world in the last 100 years. This kind of society doesn't have charm. We're yearning for something that seems more humane and satisfying...
Died. John Gunther, 68, journalist, author and world traveler whose Inside books have sold a phenomenal 3,500,000 copies over the past 30 years; in Manhattan. Blessed with a gregarious charm and intense curiosity, Gunther first won notice in the 1930s as European correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, filing reports of Germany's relentless march to war that ranked with those of Vincent Sheean and William Shirer. In 1936 Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually...
...English Charm. Fonteyn and Nureyev have been dancing a great deal in New York. But many of the major roles and productions have also been performed by dancers other than the leading couple. Circumstances in the company, too, have encouraged an assessment of the Royal Ballet's talent and future-with or without Fonteyn...
This season, after seven years as director and 35 years with the company, Sir Frederick Ashton is retiring. The Royal Ballet bears Ashton's personal mark in many ways, particularly in its fondness for classical ballet, its elegant expressiveness and sheer English charm. The company's cheerful penchant for the stately pleasure domes of dance-the long romantic narrative ballets that delight the public, began when Ashton revived them soon after the war. Now Scottish-born Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan is replacing Ashton. He is best known for Romeo and Juliet; but he once transformed The Diary of Anne...
...Bone. The book's main charm, and it is considerable, is the character of Jenny. She is brash, forthright and funny. When OIlie gets pompous she calls him "Preppie." When he reaches for a martyr's mantle, she points out that he is probably in love with her "negative social status." Says Segal: "I call it to-the-bone truth. She sees through him, as true love does...