Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These misadventures, handled with fine flair and gusto by Author Ellison, end the boy's college career. Kicking him out for irresponsible conduct, the president admits that, to get where he is, he himself had "to act the nigger." He hands out some advice for the road: "You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity -you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence...
...With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life is long on treachery, short on rewards. Everywhere, almost, one hears the reiterated gripe against life. Students wallow in private resentments. The flair for evil things some students enjoy is more than a by-product of neurosis...
...with one million dollars from the Allston Burr bequest, a gift better known in connection with Varsity Clubs. Not only is this ". . . support . . . encouraging," as Provost Buck put it, "to those of us concerned with maintaining the educational standards of Harvard College," but it proves anew the Corporation's flair for holding on to money until the time when it is needed most...
...Courting of Susie Brown contains 17 stories by Georgia's Erskine Caldwell, and the stories are at their best when Caldwell sticks to his happy flair for earthy comedy. The title piece, which deals with the courting customs of Southern Negroes, does this. So do two or three stories in which, for a change, Caldwell offers tongue-in-cheek reports on the cussedness of some Maine characters. Caldwell has less luck when he focuses on city people, and when he fumes with social indignation, the stories fall flat...
...Department of the Interior, and anything else he could get his hands on. He was "Honest Harold," bristling with incorruptibility, and so suspicious of everybody that he organized a private detective force to keep his department straitlaced. He was the "Old Curmudgeon," with a belligerent aggressiveness, a flair for day-to-day administration, a childish temper and a tongue like a branding iron...