Word: extravert
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...affable, extravert son of Ramsay...
From New York to California every other extravert was putting his left hand in his coat pocket, jabbing the air with his right forefinger and muttering about Cuber. Even Negro Comedian Nipsey Russell was imitating Kennedy; but despite the active interest comedians are showing in the President, not all current politics jokes are about him. Random samplings...
...Will to Go Apart." Archbishop Ramsey, a scholar and theologian rather than an extravert administrator like his retired predecessor, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, promised that the Church of England would "strive to penetrate the world of industry, of science, of art and literature, of sight and sound." But he seemed to speak with more feeling of the importance of scholarship and the need "for constant detachment, a will to go apart and wait upon God in quiet and silence...
...Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions, Polyansky does not stand around stiffly with the other Presidium members making small talk with diplomats; he table-hops around the hall, mingling with rank-and-file party functionaries, slapping backs and trading wisecracks...
Died. James Melton, 57, handsome strapping (6 ft. 2½ in.), Georgia-born tenor who hit his peak in the 1940s with the Metropolitan Opera and such radio shows as The Telephone Hour; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A practical-joking extravert who once had an ambulance deliver him to a party on a stretcher. Melton got his first job by bellowing melodically outside the locked office of Impresario Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, who unlocked the door, hired him on the spot. Almost as well known as his voice was his $250,000 collection of vintage autos, including a one-cylinder...