Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians winked and the lawyers shuddered when Herbert Brownell Jr., as professional a politico as ever there was in the U.S., was appointed Attorney General of the U.S. in 1953. But Brownell dropped from politics and public sight, went to work with a tough will and a legal flair. By now the legal eagles across the land rate this least-known member of the Eisenhower Cabinet as one of the best Attorneys General in U.S. history. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Back-Room Man Out Front...
...will probably attract a limited audience, and the author of "Wyndham Lewis" has made no effort to entrap the casual reader. The book is a work of scholarship, and makes no particular attempt to capitalize on Lewis' volcanic personality or his famous colleagues. Wagner writes clearly, if without particular flair, and covers his points in orderly progression. Though the scholarly tone of the work and its meticulous consideration of details will probably deter the general reader, it contains much of interest about a provocative man in a turbulent literary...
...handsome Barry Goldwater, 48, neither Modern Republicanism nor the big budget is easy to swallow. A third-generation Arizonan† and a working Episcopalian, he ran the family's two department stores with a flair for salesmanship (he promoted such products as "Antsy Pants"-men's shorts decorated with ants) and a bent for personal conservatism (his office was a cubbyhole in the basement of the Phoenix store). He broke into politics as a budget-cutting, corruption-fighting member of the Phoenix city council in 1949-52. Using his salesman's flair, he flew his own plane...
...Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows an impressive sense of story structure and scene timing, but rather less flair (in this film, at any rate) for the less intellectual aspects of the art-atmosphere and character. As for Gazzara. who made his Broadway reputation in End As a Man, A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this picture has already given him a Hollywood name...
...Denny McCluggage is willing and able to tool a skittish sports car through a major race, or rocket down a mountainside in a ski meet to give her stories an expert's touch. Her bylined stories are often self-consciously worded, but they usually sparkle with a personal flair. "There's a certain feeling that one gets in skiing and in driving a car-a fast car," she explains. "It's that subtle control of divergent forces that makes you an uncertain king in a bright but precarious realm...