Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY POPPINS. Walt Disney's drollest film in decades has wit, sentiment, lilting tunes, and an irresistible performance by Julie Andrews as the proper London governess with a flair for magic...
...Barbara Castle, 53, Minister of Overseas Development. A pert redhead with a flair for fashion, she came from a Yorkshire Laborite family, was an ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...there is much of a new type, drier, and Organization Man politician about him. He somehow projects more of a lean and hungry look and radiates less warmth than did the old guard politicians. He has less flair for the theatrical. He seems to take himself more seriously than they ever would. They were content to build little kingdoms for themselves and rule benevolently. But whatever Bellotti attains, one suspects he will still want to better himself...
MARY POPPINS. Walt Disney's drollest film in decades has wit, sentiment, lilting tunes, and an irresistible performance by Julie Andrews as the proper London governess with a flair for magic...
Until Hines's election, the major order of business at the Episcopalians' triennial general convention, most of the excitement in St. Louis had been generated by Bishop Pike. A onetime lawyer with a well-tested flair for infuriating conventional Episcopalians with his unconventional views, Pike declared in a sermon in St. Louis that to accept "historically conditioned" doctrines as eternal truths is nothing but "well-intentioned idolatry." One such doctrine is the Trinity, said Pike, since the meaning of the terms used to express it-three persons in one nature-has changed so much over the centuries that...