Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admirers of Johnny Cash and country music, in that order. The Johnny Cash Show, a fill-in hit last summer, is back on ABC with more of the Nashville sound. Another fair-weather favorite, Hee Haw, has returned to CBS; a bucolic Laughin, the show has a certain nitwit charm-for about seven minutes...
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh: "He gives the impression of modesty and charm, but many people who know him personally dislike him on the ground that he is moody...
...York Timesman Cabell Phillips, author of The Truman Presidency and a Washington reporter for 25 years, says that the "framework" of what he calls his "journalistic reprise" is "necessarily political." But the charm of the only-yesterday memoir is its look of pure miscellany. For all his muttering about framework, Phillips' shambles, happily, is no exception...
Only-yesterday histories have special charm for the connoisseur who wants to collect early POLICE BRUTALITY pictures (see page 263). Or the crank who loves typographical errors-Charles Lindberg (page 23), P. G. Woodhouse (page 472), Charles Evens Hughes (page 503). The only-yesterday's narrator is a White Rabbit. Always he must hurry on. With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer...
Alternating currents of metaphysics and machismo, and an elegant pared-down style, may be Borges' most obvious literary attractions. But it is a profound charm and personal modesty that make him endearing in person. His face lights up when anyone praises his work; yet he habitually conveys the deep stillness of a man with few illusions about himself or the world. He also conveys sweetness and wisdom, those refinements of perception that sometimes accompany old age. "Beside real short story writers," he says, "my stories hardly exist." Then he adds an overly modest bit of self-appraisal: "As Latin...