Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with some of the best ideas in television often draw the worst time spots, the poorest budgets, the smallest audiences. That is what happened for more than two years to Robert Herridge, 38, producer of CBS's Camera Three. His 30-minute show has intellectual substance and imaginative flair, and has ranged from studies of Biblical man to verbal and pictorial experiments with Walt Whitman's poetry. But the program was confined to one local Manhattan station (WCBS), was televised on Saturdays at 2 p.m., reached a maximum audience of only 500,000, and had a production budget...
...sense-and there is more than that to be found in Franklin's life and writings. It took more than common sense-namely, guts-to face the wigs of 18th-century Europe in a fur cap. It took more (or perhaps less) than common sense-namely, a theatrical flair-to allow the great ladies of the French court to crown his balding head with a laurel wreath. It took more than common sense-namely, faith and knowledge-to stand before the House of Commons and make a case for the fantastic proposition that 13 small colonies could hold...
...stop with the stars: Sondra Lee was totally right as Tiger Lily, leader of the superbly choreographed Indians; Kathy Nolan's Wendy was witty as well as winsome, and even such spear carriers as the animals and Captain Hook's foolishly wicked crew had personality and flair...
Sargent learned the lessons of his chosen masters brilliantly and soon. It was in Paris, at a scant 27, that he proved himself a painter of felicity and not just flair. His Daughters of Edward D. Bolt (opposite) found a place at the Salon of 1883, and in the minds of men. One critic dis missed it instantly as "four corners and a void." Novelist Henry James was more discerning: "The naturalness of the composition," he wrote, "the loveliness of the complete effect, the light, free security of the execution, the sense it gives us as of assimilated secrets...
...round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point in 10,000 words?" To another intellectual, who thought he was talking over Lahey's head, Lahey once cracked...