Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without Memories. Until Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy...
...rally made a thunderous noise in the ears of Democratic State Chairman Jimmy Roosevelt. It was not a groundswell he heard; it was a political fusillade. For months, by sheer industry and charm, Jimmy had tried to steer the party down the political middle. The party would not steer. A powerful right wing, headed by National Committeeman...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
...restored or preserved or quainted up with spinning-wheels and wrought-iron lanterns," is a world of feminine ideals in which many readers will discover a Victorian heritage. Readers may have the feeling that they have read it all before, but they will enjoy the quiet patrimony of English charm which the author settles on her people. The Happy Prisoner often trembles on the verge of sentimentality; what saves it from toppling over is Miss Dickens' ability to create characters who are intimately, almost tediously, convincing...
...influential as that of his friend in England who also traded countries, St. Louis-born T. S. Eliot. Both wrote militantly anti-religious poems at one period of their development, but are now Anglo-Catholics. Auden is a shock-headed Briton with chewed fingernails and schoolboy charm, whose love of language is so active that he is never quite sure he doesn't write entirely for fun. He feels and says that good U.S. writers are too inhibited to admit "the basic frivolity...