Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every inch of Philip Drysdale's excellent set, curled in an oak-panelled corner of Adams House dining room. Crasnick dashes around the stage, eavesdropping on conversations, stage-managing a love affair, and rallying forces against the hypocrisy she so intuitively sees through. Crasnick's Dorine has a delightful charm and spontaneity that not only is enchanting in itself, but also acts as a catalyst in bringing other characters to life...
These days the two spend all their time together when they are in the same city, which is about one week in four. Around his neck Jimmy wears a gold charm spelling "SUPER" that Chris gave him, while Chris wears a "J.C." charm from Jimmy. In Los Angeles, they act like any young couple in love?hugging, holding hands, dancing at parties, and skipping the conspicuous consumption they could easily afford (last year Chris earned $197,000 and Jimmy $285,000 in prize money alone). When they play tennis together?a rare occurrence?it is merely a relaxed practice session...
...left his job as a Manhattan book editor five years ago, hurried to his barn and minutes later handed his wife a quivering, wobbly-legged newborn calf. Then he went off to care for another recent offspring: Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, a unique combination of country charm and big-city slickness, which last week won a National Magazine Award...
...fact that Ida has the ability to charm a 20th-century audience is impressive, considering that its basic theme is, well, sexist. Princess Ida, married to Prince Hilarion at the tender age of one (he was twice her age, he tells us), has withdrawn from society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...
Meanwhile the U.S., deeply moved by China's suffering under the Japanese onslaught, came to idolize Chiang and especially his wife. An enrapt Wendell Willkie spoke of her combination of "brains, persuasiveness and moral force ... with wit and charm, a generous and understanding heart, a gracious and beautiful manner, and a burning conviction." Others resented her imperious will and her attempts to influence U.S. wartime strategy on Chiang's behalf. At that time the generalissimo wanted the U.S. to place less emphasis on the war against Germany and more on the fight against Japan; he sought more arms...