Word: extrovert
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...Painter Kokoschka is just as lively as ever, a leathery, vigorous extrovert who likes nothing better than tilting at established institutions. He expects to have the time of his life in Salzburg with his 40 students. During his month-long course, financed by the provincial government, he has no intention of teaching his pupils how to paint in any classroom course. Says Kokoschka: "I will teach them how to see again. This is a faculty lost to modern society...
...experience with popular theatre taxes added venom to his lecture style. Bitterly sarcastic to everything he considers mediocre on the stage, he damns the famous and obscure with fine impartiality, saving complete admiration only for Shaw. But despite the vigorous showmanship of his lectures, Chapman is no hardy extrovert. Only a small group of undergraduates can claim more than a mild acquaintance with him. In fact, his tendency to stay apart has given one colleague the false impression that his favorite amusement in the exercise line is swimming. A friend on the team says it's a cinch that...
...interested to know that the signature of John Foster Dulles [TIME, Feb. 2] reveals a brilliant extrovert, as compared to Dean Acheson, the brilliant introvert. Secretary Dulles' high, straight-lined, strikingly original capital letters indicate self-assurance and the ability to cope with big problems . . . The fluent illegibility of his other letters with their rounded formation and slightly forward slant shows a swift, uninhibited mentality combined with amiability...
...good-looking bachelor with craggy features and a voice like the Great Gilder-sleeve, Miles is a model extrovert. His personality and opinions are as open to public consumption as his sherry bottle. He is a staunch partisan of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Democratic Party, slipping the first into his Gov. 1 sections, and defending the second against all comers in the dining hall. He is a keen critic of clothes, even unto distinguishing between products of the second and third floor of Brooks Brothers...
Display of Might. In burly (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) George Meany, the A.F.L. had found a leader far different from quiet, colorless Bill Green. The son of a New York plumber and himself an apprentice plumber at 16, Meany, now 58, is a genial extrovert who firmly believes that a labor leader should be concerned with more than pork chops for his boys. An aggressive speaker with a talent for sticking to the pertinent facts, he became business representative for New York Plumbers Local 463 at 28. At 40, he was the youngest president of the New York...