Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With her certain instinct for fashion and lively writing flair, she won Vogue's Prix de Paris in competition with 1,280 other girls. (Her answer to one question-which three eminent men of the past she would prefer to meet?-gives another small clue to her character. She picked Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Diaghilev.) But Jackie regretfully declined the prize-a return trip to Paris-when her mother objected. There was a brief engagement to John Husted Jr., a socially registered Manhattan broker, but, both agree, it was never really serious...
John Jay McCloy, 65, director of the U.S. Disarmament Administration. Bald, brusque Banker-Lawyer McCloy, a Republican, has a flair for doing the almost impossible-a characteristic that suits his new job of supervising the new Administration's disarmament policy. A graduate of Amherst ('16) and Harvard Law School, McCloy began his Government life at the edge of World War II. After resigning from his Manhattan law practice, he became a troubleshooting assistant to the Secretary of War, worked in the distinguished circle that included General George C. Marshall, Robert A. Lovett, James Forrestal, Robert Patterson...
...Actor-Playwright Peter Ustinov were to ad-lib a novel on the stage or before a TV camera, it might turn out very well. With his wit, his storyteller's flair and his crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...
...until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...
...responsible for that is Director Philippe de Broca. who never before made a movie on his own and now emerges as the biggest comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...