Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear a voice, and, packing up my Gladstone bag, follow it to the ends of the world...
...rest of the argument. One of the curious things about the end of civilization (for of course the bomb was only the coup de grace) was that so many people knew what was wrong, but nobody could really do anything about it. Whatever words William Orton may use to charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that...
...with "Lady in the Dark," what with the dream sequences and the choice between males. Rice is less pretentious and more entertaining than was Moss Hart. And Miss Field can spot Gertrude Lawrence all those elaborate night dreams with songs and dances, and still come out ahead on general charm and reality...
...hard life of a Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...
...months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment. The Bradens have five children, three grandchildren...