Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deed the glory." The words seem too high-blown to be associated with modern major-college football. Putting aside the moral excesses, just the logistical ones are awesome. And the Nebraska program, like so many others, is overgrown to the point of hilarity, but not to the exclusion of charm. Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player, and there seem to be more of them than cornstalks. None of which depresses the local citizenry, a delegation of whom rises on Thursdays before dawn, sometimes 350 strong, to attend a 6:30 a.m. breakfast, with...
Chayes describes the assassination as "a demonstration of the absurdist view of life." The sudden killing of a President graced with youth, education, and charm meant "nothing in the world can be stable," he comments...
...Even using film clips from public appearances I could show his charm, his wit, his rapport with people," she said...
...Helene-Patricia makes the switch from rags to riches, settling down among people and sweeping scenery of enormous charm, we find it hard to believe she will be able to pull it oft. She is, it seems, simply too vulnerable, sweet, and above all, guileless, to survive under the circumstances...
...occupied the White House for the shortest (elected) term since Warren Harding-and who had a problematic tenure, very much a learning process and a mixed bag of one fiasco and many missteps and some accomplishments-should be thus elevated, by the force of his presence, his vivid charm, to the company of the greatest Presidents, as if the inspirational power of personality were enough for greatness. Perhaps it is. Many Americans make the association. Yet what sways them is in some sense the strange coercive power of the martyr, Kennedy's great vitality turned inside out. He came...