Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant minds of these and other scientists, Overbye reveals cosmology to be a human and passionate enterprise. This lures the reader into wanting to know something of the science as well, which Overbye explains with care and clarity. The book should be required reading...
...national-security program at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government that is held every year, as well as numerous seminars on a variety of political and military issues. In addition, the Council on Foreign Relations provides an internship program for military officers. The Pentagon even runs a "charm school" (properly called the General Officer Orientation class), where freshly baked brigadiers are taught social graces that include the proper choice of forks as well as the finger-bowl ritual...
...government began construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, to curb the draining exodus of frustrated East Germans to the West. Many people in Borneman's book felt as if a limb had been amputated, but others saw the Wall as an opportunity to exclude the hypnotic charm of the West. It would give socialism time to grow during its vulnerable infancy...
...just opened the letter from my wife when we had a Scud alert," says Sergeant Darrell Thompson, 37, of the XVIII Airborne. "I dropped my mail to run off to the bunker, but I put the photo of my little girl in my pocket, like a good-luck charm...
...regular visitors of the Harvard Quarterly Poetry Board Board--known affectionately by regulars as the "Board Board"--this barroom-style literary criticism is an integral part of the poetry forum's charm...