Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under his well-cultivated Eton and Cambridge charm, Keynes had the roving, many-sided spirit of an Elizabethan. His interests ranged from banking to the Bloomsbury artistic set, his hobbies from bibliography to the ballet. But the world would remember him as an economist with ideas as seminal as Adam Smith...
...charm of Army life, The touch of discipline and strife! The military magic made him hum: With the things he learned He has now returned, Still...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
...taxi drivers, disgruntled by the troublesome regulations decreed by Linhares during a taxi strike, joined the hexing. Said one darkly: "We've chipped in to buy ten boxes of good cigars for the god Omulo to make the charm work. Linhares had better not take an airplane...
...gayer younglove yarn than Sailor rarely turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...