Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tancourt was provisional President from 1945 to 1948, later took over the party leadership in 1958 when Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez was overthrown and Betancourt elected President. Leoni campaigned on a promise to continue Betancourt's successful economic and social reforms. But he lacks Betancourt's flair and almost hypnotic hold on back-country campesinos; squabbles within A.D. also worked against him. As a result, Leoni and A.D. won only 33% of the vote last week (v. nearly 50% in 1958), enough to elect Leoni President but far from enough for a working majority in Congress...
...Lady can always be first on the social scene if she wants to. Not every Presidents wife has wanted to. Eleanor Roosevelt, for one was more interested in social workers than social life. Bess Truman set a good table, but threw humdrum affairs. Mamie Eisenhower tried, but lacked the flair. At a 1959 state dinner for Premier Khrushchev, she had Fred Waring in to entertain. While Waring's Pennsylvanians belted out Dry Bones, a translator mumbled "de words of de Lawd into the ear of a befuddled Nikita: Anklebone connected to de shinbone, shinbone connected to de kneebone...
Thus everyone shares time's cruel burden, trapped by the memory of transient pleasures impossible to renew, tragic errors impossible to erase. Only the nubile "niece," played with a fine flair by Nita Klein, escapes untouched for now. "I've had enough of this dump with all its memories," she snaps, and takes herself right back to Paris...
...Norris has made Control Data into a company with yearly sales of more than $63 million; last week he announced the purchase of the California-based control-systems division of Daystrom Inc. A quiet man, shy to the point of brusqueness, Norris is an engineer with a flair for recruiting, training and keeping good people who are given modest salaries but generous stock options. Norris delegates authority "as low as possible in the organization," adheres to strict office routine that allows him time for "lots of family life" with his wife and eight children...
...excerpt from a novel, Horowitz accomplishes the difficult job of having a character inside the story relate another story; a slight stiffness of style hardly detracts from the chapter's interest. Hillman displays a flair for style with his first sentence: "Jo swept in with a querulous wind, she all flushed and gasping, it cold." Donald Bloch's "Metasis," although hard to follow, is eminently readable...