Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation...
...James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with a weekly called the Tribune and Farmer, Curtis, with some help from his wife, moved in 1883 into the neglected field of women's publications with the Ladies' Home Journal. On the genius of Editor Edward William Bok. whom Curtis hired away from Charles Scribners...
...retired Army colonel, but he chose the Naval Academy instead of West Point, was commissioned an ensign in 1944, and served on a destroyer in the Atlantic until the end of World War II. Everything he did, he did with a personal flair. When he wangled orders to flight school, he became so impatient with the pace of service routine that he got himself a private pilot's license at a civilian flight school. When he took up water skiing, he found two skis too prosaic; he learned to manage with one and is now planning...
...Suzanne Burke. Miss Burke is an extremely fine technician and showed an impressive mastery of the Ravel Piano Concerto, but just such ability makes the woodeness she impressed upon it all the more disappointing and inexcusable. This concerto is poetic, humorous and extravagant, substituting flair for profundity; without great liveliness and feeling (and Miss Burke lacked them) this bit of diversion becomes little but tedium...
...cannot exist in English."* Lowell relies on loose-rhythmed couplets with idiomatic echoes of the English Restoration. Another hazard is that the powdered elegance and stately cadences of French 17th century tragic drama have proved persistently uncongenial to Anglo-American tastes. Poet Lowell, stoking his lines with fire and flair, keeps Phaedra and its key characters well above room temperature...