Word: charmingly
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...reason, it occurs to me, is simple and yet profound: America lacks charm. My sister-in-law, a single French welfare mother who lives in a beautiful Proven?al village with four boys between four and 18, all at home, seems to me, despite her difficulties, to have more charm in her life-the daily trips to the boulangerie and weekly ones to the market, the occasional glass of vin rouge with some fresh p?t?, the tiled roofs and stone walls of the village itself-than many a millionaire in my great home state of Texas. (Quelle horreur...
...rarity for us charm-famished North Americans to discover, here in Europe, so much of what we could only dream of back home. The Canadian-born French writer Nancy Huston, who first came to Paris as a 20-year-old Sarah Lawrence student in 1973 and never left, puts it this way: "I found that, in the very air I breathed, sun, figs, fish, sensuality, sand, music, sea, there was too much of sweetness and of beauty-without struggle, without sacrifice, without ?merit.' Yes: it was this that allowed me to take the measure of my own Puritanism...
...this is precisely what charm protects us against, by allowing us to take pleasure in the quotidian, to fill each day with a bit of joie de vivre. "If you have it," as the British writer J.M. Barrie so astutely realized, "you don't need anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have...
...wild-child teenager, as reckless as they come and headed for nowhere, but he grew up to be his sport's father figure, Dad without the breaks, and a corporate titan to boot. He could regale a crowd of GM dealers with war stories for an hour--Mr. Charm--then shift gears in a heartbeat, chiding drivers who wanted to slow the cars down as "candy asses." He made tens of millions of dollars racing and tens of millions more running Dale Earnhardt Inc., but even at 49, a man of considerable responsibilities and with nothing left to prove...
DIED. CHARLES TRENET, 87, French crooner considered a master of la chanson francaise; in Creteil, France. Beloved for his mischievous charm and paeans to everyday life, his most famous song, La Mer (popularized in the U.S. by Bobby Darin as Beyond the Sea), has been recorded nearly 4,000 times...