Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actor Johnson rises brightly to the chance to display a light-comedy flair too often smothered by his material in the past. Actress Allyson's facile hands on the piano keyboard look surprisingly professional in a dubbed-in performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. And the film proves the perfect outlet for the little-girlishness that sometimes cloys in her grown-up roles...
...world of seemingly private resentments. Most of his fellow writers suffer from what has become their occupational disease: belief that disappointment is life's only certainty. The young writers of the '205 were at least original enough to create personal styles. Today the young writer's flair sometimes turns out to be nothing more than a byproduct of his neuroses...
...copy quarterly, Gentry, which appeared last week, sponsored by Manhattan's Reporter Publications. The new magazine did not quite live up to its billing ("There is nothing in the world like it"). It looked rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated...
...high school in The Bronx, and have worked together for eight years putting out men's clothing trade publications (American Fabrics, Men's Reporter, Canadian Reporter, Gold Book Directory"). They claim a solid year's booking of advertising for Gentry, and 14,000 charter subscriptions. Flair may well have failed because it aimed at no particular reader. Singer thinks he has drawn a bead on Gentry's: a sort of soth Century Renaissance man-well-educated, well-heeled, with leisure to dabble in the arts, science, sports, philosophy or his own Finnish bath...
Massachusetts legislators, in their flair for publicity and recognition, continually forget that existing laws cover all acts of sedition. The federal Smith Act and the Massachusetts Prohibition of Anarchy law are completely adequate to prosecute actual offenders. Under these laws the jurisdiction and responsibility lies within the realm of an official court, not in the hands...