Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom of Choice. As Gernsback inventions go, the new multi-eyed TV set is of modest flair. It is a conventional set with built-in satellites, intended to solve the problems of TV critics, network executives who want to scout the opposition, watchers of election returns, and families engaged in intramural brawls over who wants what channel. In the middle of Gernsback's new set is the big traditional eye, and flanking it are vertical rows of small, 3-in. screens, as many as are necessary to cover all channels that broadcast in the owner's area. This...
Graham at a press conference reminds one of a politician delivering his "set speech," and of one politician in particular, Billy Graham and Barry Goldwater have more in common than the initials they use. They both combine passionate beliefs with personal flair; neither is an original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
...singing opera, I'm a very good opera singer," says Marni Nixon in a self-appraisal that contains more professional confidence than mere egotism. "When I'm doing concerts, I have a lot of musicianship. And when I'm doing musical comedy, I have a certain flair there, too. I would love to do a Broadway show. I've been up for several, and it's getting quite close...
...Tyrolean resort of Lech am Arlberg, he picked up free pointers by watching rich tourists practice stem Christies on the slopes around the Zimmermann family inn. Packed off to Paris' ritzy Ledoyen restaurant at 15 to learn the art of French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer." But then he dislocated a shoulder on the eve of the 1960 Olympics...
...grubstake into control of a small New Jersey roller-bearing plant. In 1916 William Durant, the flamboyant founder of General Motors, bought out Sloan, who became a G.M. executive. Only four years later, when Durant was forced out for speculating in G.M. shares, Sloan had shown such a flair for organization that the new Du Pont management made him executive vice president. In 1923 he became president...