Word: demeanors
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...past two years. Says Holmes: "Nearly all the people I interviewed, including Ueberroth, had to struggle against doubting Thomases, financial setbacks and physical exhaustion to bring their dreams to fruition. Yet somehow, astonishingly, they all made it." To get a fresh view of the personality behind Ueberroth's controlled demeanor, Robert Ajemian, TIME's Washington bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth search for a New York City apartment. Says Ajemian: "He has a swift, shrewd mind that picks up subtleties...
...voice was resonant, his accent lilting, his demeanor disarmingly gentle. But his words carried a sting. "We do not want our chains comfortable," South Africa's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. "We want them removed." The black clergyman, who will travel to Oslo this week to accept the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, assailed the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa as "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian." "We shall be free," he declared. "And we shall remember who helped us become free." Breaking their own rules, the subcommittee members gave...
...have proceeded like a striptease in reverse. First came the Diaries (published in the U.S. in 1976), a revealing look at Waugh's private, sometimes drunken and usually unflattering thoughts about his contemporaries. Next arrived the Letters (1980), in which the writer appeared in the less scathing demeanor he put on for his correspondents. Now this massive selection of Waugh's journalism displays him fully dressed for his reading public. There are thus no naked surprises in this volume, but it is fascinating all the same: a chronicle both of tumultuous decades and of Waugh's refusal...
...usually appears in charge. He took over the Bell and Howell company while still in his 20s and went on to become a self-made millionaire, a three term senator and Chairman of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee. With his gray-blonde hair, athletic physique and patrician demeanor, Percy looks not only far younger than his 65 years but also like every screen politician played by Hal Holbrook or Gregory Peck. In the past, Republican Party regulars have mentioned Percy as a possible Presidential or vice-presidential candidate...
...civility of tone. Said a government participant: "There were no hugs and kisses, but there was much more cordiality than expected. We had feared [the guerrillas] would be cold and formal, even hostile, but they were reasonably friendly and very civilized." Duarte's recollection of the guerrillas' demeanor was that "they were very hard at first" (see box). The guerrillas' own feelings about their attitude were summed up by Zamora: "We are in favor of a process that, although it may take time at the beginning, should acquire solidity as time goes...