Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vavoulis has little political glamour, little flair, little gift of gab. But he has two qualities that St. Paul voters obviously like a lot: he conveys an impression of deep sincerity, and he works very hard at his job. "I saw the man turn up at meetings I never dreamed the mayor even knew about," says a St. Paul newsman. "He may have been a bit tiresome, but he was tireless...
...conducted the Hessian Radio Orchestra in a program of Schoenberg, Debussy and Mozart, the ovation he got only echoed what critics have been saying in print that in his first season at the head of the orchestra, Dixon has made the musicians play "as if transformed." For all his flair, Dixon is no fancy...
...Memorable Moment. As boss of the World's Fair, Whalen. with his irrepressible flair for salesmanship, almost singlehanded conned nation after reluctant nation into building pavilions, sold mil lions of dollars in fair bonds. He wrote the contracts and signed them, hired the key personnel, played competing corporations off on one another to get them to invest in exhibits, piped water from the city to the fair site, expanded subway service to bring in the customers...
Daniel Eigerman leads the return to competence with the opening chapter of his unpublished novel, Heartboy. Eigerman writes smooth, rhythmic sentences; he had a flair for dialogue that builds his characters and has begun a tale that promises to be intriguing. Quite pleasantly, Heartboy does not smack of self-analysis; Eigerman has a story to tell and he tells it, without any unneeded verbiage or Angst...
Dave Morse will bat third and start at short, and slick fielding Terry Bartolet will be at second, giving the Crimson a fine double play combination. Both Morse and Bartolet have terrifically fast hands, and handle chances with an almost professional flair...