Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turns effortlessly and unexpectedly-only clever performers can manage that-and never has to push to get up momentum for an eight or a loop-change-loop. She always seems to be enjoying herself, and as a result people always enjoy watching her. She has equilibrium, charm and style. A U.S. skating judge, who likes to define the quality of a skater in one word ("push" is his word for Sonja), puzzled over Barbara Ann a while, then described her quality as "femininity...
Perhaps better than any other College building, old Gore Hall symbolized the Harvard of 1873. It was a picturesque structure, with high, thin towers that looked down on the bare west side of the Yard. But despite its quiet charm, Gore was totally inadequate as a library. It was poorly lighted and so damp that moisture collected on the books while one was reading them...
...most interesting was Horowitz's Chopin. By choosing the Nocturnes in E Minor and F Sharp Major and the Ballade in G Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
Most Sargent girls are easterners, but some come from as far away as China and Cuba. When a freshman arrives, she is gently introduced to the Sargent way of life, and to Cambridge, which, an official handbook informs her, is "in the midst of New England's beauty, charm and intrigue." "If history interests you," the handbook continues, "visit Harvard Yard." Once acclimated, Sargent freshmen begin a four-year program which consists mostly of training in physical education and therapy, with a scattering of fundamental academic courses...
...Tuckerman's Ravine and the Suicide Six bore you, if you Nosedive no longer holds that old charm, then salt away you Lake Placid folders and take the next train west...