Word: cordiality
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...next morning the project director was very cordial, and gave me a guided tour around the campus. By the end of the tour the first set of Cambridge guidelines started to topple. We had hoped to select students for the program by their personality, or something we saw in them that hinted they might profit more than someone else from attending school outside their home town. Obviously this was a very subjective judgment but we had set a minimal objective criteria based on grades, class standing, and test scores. However, a large number of those taking the test at this...
...lions' den, their choice of Tulsa was a deliberate one. "We saw it not as a way of taking on Hargis," said a council spokesman, Faith Pomponio, "but as a way of communication with his people." In fact, most of Tulsa's Protestant clergymen were cordial, and Republican Mayor James Hewgley was almost lyrical in his welcome: "The Lord sent them here." Even Hargis paid the council a backhanded compliment. "The cause of religious fundamentalism," he complained, has been "set back ten years in Tulsa...
Apart from the summit disagreement, relations between the two men remained cordial, and the monumental job of switching Administrations proceeds with fewer missed beats than ever before. The Nixon headquarters in New York, where the names of job prospects for 2,000-plus second-rung presidential appointments are undergoing intensive screening, resembles the White House more and more every day. It is becoming almost obligatory for foreign bigwigs to call on the President-elect as well as on the President himself: Is rael's General Moshe Dayan came to see Nixon last weekend, and this week the Amir...
...eight years as Vice President and five years as a paripatetic counsel for Pepsi-Cola, Nixon had met with virtually every world leader and with hundreds of the most prominent politicians from Paris to Pnompenh. The Shah of Iran sent a congratulatory cable citing "our long relationship of cordial amity." Even Gamal Abdel Nasser of the U.A.R., which has broken diplomatic ties with the U.S., expressed good wishes...
Wayne Morse himself is the biggest issue. In four Senate terms, Morse has infuriated just about everybody in some ways, charmed them in others. A corrosive critic of the Viet Nam war, he nevertheless is on cordial terms with L.B.J...