Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour, the power to excite sudden deep affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic intuition, and the curse of self-doubt...
...music tapped. There is a great feast of choral, instrumental, and harpsichord music which is never served to moderns except in isolated events such as the Lowell House production of the opera-play, "King Arthur." And this is in spite of his unquestioned genius: of the simple and dignified charm of all his works, of the amazingly conceived and thrillingly beautiful harmonic progressions which could be surpassed only by those of J. S. Bach...
Indian Nations. For prejudice-breaking value and charm nothing in the Fair surpassed an exhibition of American Indian art, housed in one wing of the handsome Federal building. To two kinds of visitors it gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
History, however, is likely to remember San Francisco's 1939 fair for none of these things, recalling charm instead of wonders. For no fair in history has had so beautiful a site as Treasure Island, just inside California's breath-taking Golden Gate, with the world's most awe-inspiring bridges stretching over and away from it. And San Franciscans have wisely chosen to make their fair gemlike rather than gigantic, compact (400 acres*), serene and gay. With one of America's few charming cities for its sponsor, GGIE may make history by being really pleasant...
Walt Disney in his work includes all the ingredients of popular art. It strikes most strongly in the masses and yet is not too low for the most intellectual. It has charm, excitement, and movement which reacts equally on the smallest child and the most sophisticated adult. In short it is a universal art, for all times and all places...