Word: easygoingness
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Among anti-Goldwaterites, there is a feeling that the G.O.P. is now in the hands of a thoroughgoing Bourbon. "For all his warmth as a person," says Wall Street Lawyer Lyman Tondel Jr., a Republican, "he has an appalling lack of understanding of the problems of most people, particularly the...
Bauer wasted no time whipping the Orioles into line when he took over the club this spring. Baltimore had not won a major-league pennant since 1896, and the Orioles, under easygoing ex-Manager Billy Hitchcock, had a reputation for playing their best ball off the job. The first thing...
Public Slugging. Of the two, Mayer is both the more messianic and the more corrosive. A wisecracking, easygoing chap, he was a protege of the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, taught in Mortimer Adler's Great Books program before launching a career as a freelance writer...
His freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized...
A Local Habitation. Cheever's art deals less with what is called character and idiosyncrasy than with archetypes: father, son, brother, husband, wife, lover, seen in situations so intensely felt as to claim universality. His people move like characters in classic drama; the actors wear their fixed masks and...