Word: charming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austrian-born Schwarzenegger radiates the ultimate make-out charm. He is confident but not offensive, self-centered but no braggard. He intersperses his jokes with winks and smiles that expose the boyish split between his front teeth. However dubious people may consider his athletic achievements--six Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles--nobody can call him a bore. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a P.T. Barnum with muscles...
DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
Thomas apparently lived in the classic certitude that personal charm and poetic gifts entitled him to special treatment. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship...
...took office. Having campaigned for the presidency as an anti-Washington outsider, he was slow to cultivate the old congressional hands who make things work on Capitol Hill. His White House congressional liaison staff was for a time small and inexperienced, and Carter's own efforts to charm the legislators have sometimes been inept...
...brotherhood, this vision of sharing and joyous community that he had known as a child in the black quarter of Princeton. From this supportive, close-knit, hemmed-in sphere, Robeson stretched his horizons further and further outward, crossing oceans, making friends, disarming bigots with his undeniable talent and charm. He strove to make first the white world, then the international cultural world, every bit as much his home as the living rooms of his poor black relatives in New Jersey...