Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian people, said Matthews, have been shocked out of the complacency with which they entered war against Britain. Greatest shock has been the sell-out of all the fine-sounding ideals with which Benito Mussolini once used to charm his people. The most powerful men in the country are the great industrialists who run the Fiat (autos, armaments), Montecatini (mining and chemicals) and Snia Viscosa (ersatz textiles) monopolies. Along with them has been created a new class of wealthy men in high Government office. Italian peasants, remembering Mussolini's attacks on Democratic plutocrats (men who grew powerful through wealth...
Work in a war plant also has more charm for the female worker than work in an old-fashioned factory. Aircraft plants, for instance, are likely to be brand-new, one-floor, fluorescent-lighted places, with plenty of space. The atmosphere is air-conditioned and stimulating -signs, flags, mottoes, charts exhort speed and more speed. Machinery is compact, beltless, quiet. And management constantly concerns itself with worker morale...
...20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...
...think. I'll regret having bought "Can't We Be Friends" if ever the charm of the performance itself begins to fade...
...like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...