Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, of course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world...
...result these green stone animals have a charm that is comparatively lacking in the artists' self-portraits. These, on the whole, are angular with distorted features. They seem to reflect the strain of a life of constant struggle with the elements. A striking example of this spirit is a family group carved out of a single block of black soapstone. The figures are huddled together. They are heavy, clumsy and coarse-featured, but oddly uncertain, despite their solidarity. Likewise, a carved hunter seems very much at the mercy of his surroundings. His axe raised and face contorted, he twists, almost...
...understanding of the era. Also included, however, is a section on Lardner's courtship with his future wife, Ellis. Because Lardner was traveling with the White Sox throughout his courtship, he and Ellis rarely saw one another. They wrote each other constantly, however, and the letters reveal Ring's charm and innocence. At a later point in their relationship, Ring has been looking for an apartment for the soon to be married couple. He writes Ellis, describing a place he has found, asking her if she would like her bedroom "off the front room or farther back." Yardley says...
...Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned 75 retired generals and admirals to a meeting to drum up support for the treaty. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, about to depart for trade talks in Tokyo, was rerouted to Capitol Hill, where his yarn-spinning charm was put to work on wavering Congressmen...
...industry-a milieu that could prove to be as durable as the Minneapolis TV newsroom of MTM. White plays Joyce Whitman, a veteran TV actress who stars in a fictional network cop show called Undercover Woman. Joyce's ex-husband, a self-described "cold fish" played with slimy charm by John Hillerman, is also her director, and for much of the first episode, the two ex-spouses rekindle their marital acrimony by trading insults on the Undercover Woman set. Occasionally-and gratuitously-Joyce's roommate (Georgia Engel, another MTM refugee) pops up to referee...