Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life among the humanoids of outer space-if such ever come to light-could not be more remote from the modern world than the bizarre and ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...
...member of the go-go generation of the space age, it is not difficult to see why the Kennedys are more popular than Johnson. They have flair, charm, a witty intensity, dedication to their country, and, Bugs Bunny to the contrary, we would rather hear that rapid-fire New England accent than that twangy Texas drawl preaching at us. Johnson is square, folksy and dullsville, sounding just like dozens of boring politicians from the past. The Kennedys are bright and new; they're with it. So are their in-laws: Jackie still commands more newsprint than Luci, cum wedding...
...Fairness & Equality." For all his civic zeal and his personal flair for the good life on a 200-acre Connecticut estate and at his Florida mansion, Gimbel was more than anything else a shrewd merchant. He was hardly out of the University of Pennsylvania and into the Philadelphia Gimbels store before he was pushing drastic changes on his father and six uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked...
...Cleveland's finest acquisitions are Goya's portrait of the Infante Don Luis de Boróon and Ribera's Death of Adonis (see color pages). Both works demonstrate Lee's flawless flair for picking a masterpiece that is also an unusual example of its kind. "The modern audience," says Lee, "has come to look to Goya for a brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth...
Search for First Causes. Ardrey is undeniably an exciting writer, with a very excitable mind. He has the playwright's flair for the dramatic, for the hyperbole that embroiders truth. That does not mean that his books should be swallowed whole. He will never win his spurs in the scientific community, which stands aghast at his unscientific methodology. The true scientist strives to make a theory stick by marshaling all the conceivable evidence against it. Ardrey vaults to a theory over the obstacles of rebutting fact...