Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slain Mujib was a man of enormous magnetism and charm who frequently attracted million-strong throngs with his stirring and emotional oratory. "I have known the impact of Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru," said one observer, "but the depth of feeling Mujib evoked in so many people and so effortlessly was something no other leader had ever done." Jailed for the first time as a seventh-grader when he agitated in favor of India's independence from Britain, Mujib spent more than ten years behind bars, joking, "Prison is my other home...
...October, 1939--one that is sometimes sentimental, but nearly always absorbing. One character after another wanders in to Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, each with his or her own memories, hopes, disappointments, etc. The play is certainly dated, but that's part of its charm. And this production sets the right tone, with a set that could serve as a museum model for a down-and-out bar in 1939. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., except Saturdays at 5 and 9. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50 for normal...
...Fords counter with their disarming lack of pretension. "I had never thought about being First Lady," says the President's wife. "So I decided-I'm just going to be Betty Bloomer Ford." She both has and hasn't, and that may be her chief charm and canniest success as First Lady. Not long ago, after the White House domestic staff had turned in for the night, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came up to the family quarters to report to the President on his latest diplomatic trip. Betty Ford, wearing bathrobe and slippers, wandered...
...Kissinger gave a foreign policy briefing to local notables, met the press and made a speech that was interrupted four times by a heckler. The Secretary paused and commented patiently, "I think I have some of my Harvard students here," and from then on owned the appreciative audience. His charm worked equally well on six-year-old Beth Wilder. When she held up her autograph book to him, Kissinger, spoofing his own legendary ego, asked hopefully, "Am I the first?"-and effectively mimed disappointment when she said...
...Lewis Carroll is absent, not to mention his celebrated crushes on Victorian nymphets. And the book shows a predilection for minor clerics and third-rate poetasters that is a bit too donnish for 1975. Yet in the end, the musty, bibliomaniacal quality only adds to the volume's charm. Lord Chesterfield once told his son that "there are very many [books], and even very useful ones, which may be read with ad vantage by snatches and unconnectedly." This is one of them...