Word: debonaire
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...Macmillan frowns on public displays ot deep emotion, but when the spirit moves him he has a ringing voice and a rolling turn of phrase that can strike sparks in even the most phlegmatic audience. Last week, as he faced 300 reporters in one of his rare press conferences, debonair Harol Macmillan was under the spell of a vision that gave him eloquence. "I have seen in my lifetime the steady Balkanization and disruption of Europe." he said. "Europe has suffered wars. It has torn itself to pieces twice in my lifetime like the ancient states of Greece...
Author Yamata (Lady of Beauty) is quick to admit that some geishas are merely beautiful dumb brunettes. But the trio whose authentic life stories she tells in her spare, grave and yet oddly debonair book, were bright, courageous women possessed of enough tragic dignity to become enshrined in Japan's human legend...
...play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the tightrope of maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances Sternhagen, was a triumph of sincerity. The difficulty of the Mephistopheles role...
...Harvard Law School's debonair Zechariah ("Zack") Chafee Jr., 70, an expert on equity law who won both popular and academic acclaim as one of the nation's most lucid authorities on freedom of the press and civil liberties. A classmate of the late Senator Robert Taft at Harvard Law School, Chafee later joined the faculty to find himself teaching such promising young men as Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish, Joseph N. Welch and Kenneth Royall, was so handy with the apt anecdote that he became known as "the Scheherazade of the law school." He gradually emerged...
...first cousin and the seventh in line to Britain's throne. Wherever young Kent went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another reached its climax when some of the duke's young friends decided to scale a perilous parapet and sprinkle innocent passers-by in the street below with champagne...